Wal-Mart Relaunches Online Music Store

ack154 writes "The latest competitor in the paid music download business will now open its 'doors,' as Walmart begins selling songs at 88 cents online. It had recently finished a three month testing period and now will open to everyone. According to CNN, however, they don't care so much about selling music, 'Analysts have said the goal for Wal-Mart is to bring more people to its Web site.' Maybe they're taking cue from Apple in trying to sell something (iPod) else by using a music store? Articles can be found at Reuters, CNN and others." amichalo points out that this is really a re-entry, writing "The service was previously launched last December. No explanation as to the re-launch (cough-poor-sales-cough) other than the addition of exclusive artists."

Comments

The only problem

[Anonymous Coward]

is that all the songs suck, much like all the other WalMart merchandise.

Re:SO let me get this straight

[stinkyfingers]

If I want to use the "best" online music store out there, I get to:

1. Dump my trusty Firefox browser for a resource hogging piece of proprietary software
2. Stop using the media player that I use for all the other music I have
3. Buy an overpriced, overhyped, overengineered piece of hardware
4. Deal with a company that historically shown itself to be one of the worst managed companies in America. One that shoots it own foot off whenver it sniffs a little success.

I, for one, am not falling for the hype. That's about as stupid as buying a computer because I can choose what color it is on the side.

Walmart is as bad as OJ,

[DR SoB]

I'm so sick and tired of reading about Wal-Mart. Whoopie do, they are a huge retailer, yeah! Anyone else sick of hearing "Walmart this, Walmart that"? No wonder they are so huge, for some reason the media loves "Walmart does anything"... I've now offically seen more in the news about Walmart, then I have of OJ.