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Sprint Launchings Music to Mobile Downloads

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the when-you-have-to-have-that-song-right-now dept.

* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us that Sprint Nextel is looking to take a bite out of Apple's iTunes pie with the upcoming release of the first music download service direct to mobile phones. The service offers the ability to get the song directly to your phone in addition to a high quality version that you can download to your PC. From the article: "The Sprint Music Store will enable subscribers of the third-largest mobile carrier to choose from 250,000 songs from all four major music labels and download them for $2.50 each using phones from either Samsung Electronics or Sanyo Electric."

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  1. How's the quality? by ankarbass · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is it at least 2.5 times as good as iTunes? Since when did music become like crack that we have to have it so bad that we'll pay $2.50 to hear it on a crappy sprint speaker? When I was a kid the best you could hope for was that there were some stickers in the album (dark side of the moon) that you could stare at until you got home to play your new record.

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  2. Wow! All FOUR major lables? by flinxmeister · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That pretty much ensures that all best music is there!

    No wonder they're charging $2.50. If they only dealt with labels then this shows what the labels are going to push Apple for next year.

    The situation is getting riper and riper for musicians to tell these folks to go jump and take the primary seat in dealing with digital distrubutors. Sooner or later it will happen.

    If labels had any sense they would be charging nickels and dimes for very lightly DRM'd downloads to hold that market.

  3. Re:selection down, price up by GlassHeart · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Others are willing to pay hundreds of dollars per hour because they are too retarded to unclog their own plumbing. Still others pay $50 several times a year because they are too retarded to change the oil in their own engine. I hear some are so retarded they even pay other people to cook their food for them!

    We're all retards at one thing or another, friend. Please be kind.