{"id":9828,"date":"2006-10-22T21:50:26","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T20:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taggedtalk.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2006-10-22T21:50:26","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T20:50:26","slug":"the-rickie-lee-jones-mp3-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/9828-the-rickie-lee-jones-mp3-store.html","title":{"rendered":"The Rickie Lee Jones MP3 store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just come across the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatbigisland.com\/rickie_sales.htm\">Rickie Lee Jones MP3 store<\/a>. Rickie Lee Jones is&nbsp;the&nbsp;singer\/songwriter who brought us the sexy, sublime Chuck E&#8217;s in Love back in 1979. Now she&#8217;s the biggest artist on sale at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatbigisland.com\/mp_3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Great Big Island<\/a>, where you can buy both CDs and MP3s. The percentages are not stated, but it seems that the musicians get a much larger slice of the profits that they would from iTunes or other legal download sites.<\/p>\n<p>I like the idea, especially as there is no troublesome DRM to contend with. However I would much prefer files without the lossy compression of MP3, especially since these are a barely adequate 128K. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dgmlive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Fripp&#8217;s download store<\/a>&nbsp;can do it; why not Great Big Island?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:0a912528-8cc5-4040-8f04-309e72fc58b5\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/rickie%20lee%20jones\" rel=\"tag\">rickie lee jones<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/mp3\" rel=\"tag\">mp3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/itunes\" rel=\"tag\">itunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/music%20download\" rel=\"tag\">music download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just come across the Rickie Lee Jones MP3 store. Rickie Lee Jones is&nbsp;the&nbsp;singer\/songwriter who brought us the sexy, sublime Chuck E&#8217;s in Love back in 1979. Now she&#8217;s the biggest artist on sale at Great Big Island, where you can buy both CDs and MP3s. The percentages are not stated, but it seems that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/9828-the-rickie-lee-jones-mp3-store.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Rickie Lee Jones MP3 store<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}