Low cost, DRM-Free, legal music purchases online with Amie Street!

I’m always looking for new music to listen to, and preferably at a cost I can afford (free, or just pennies).
I also enjoy listening to [tag]independent artists[/tag] far, far more than dealing with the drama that comes from RIAA-induced artists.
I’ve been listening to the same stuff in my playlist for weeks now, and it was time for me to go find something new to play.
Enter Amie Street.

Amie Street is a relatively new service that has its own independent artist offerings, and a rather unique way to compensate the artists.
All the music on Amie Street starts off as free. As users download, and recommend it to others, it slowly grows a price tag, according to its popularity. The concept is quite grand, to be honest — no need to cough up 99 cents for 58 seconds of silence, like I saw on iTunes a long time ago. Just snag it for a low cost, and support the artists who’re just trying to share their music and spread their works.

Amie Street has a leg up on Magnatune right now: [tag]DRM-Free[/tag], AND the ability to pay for singles. Sometimes, you just want that ONE song on an album, and not the rest of them.
One of the songs I snagged while looking through [tag]Amie Street[/tag] today is named A Useless Living, by Fadeliss. I enjoyed it quite a fair bit, too. I enjoyed the noisy beats at the beginning, and the steady rhythm it put forth. :)

If there were one thing that I’d like to see out of Amie Street, it’d be consistent tagging requirements on the music, rather than some of the songs having tags, others having mismatched tags, and others having no tagging at all.

Have a look around Amie Street — you might enjoy it as much as I did. :)

Update: You might even go back and spend a little money to try out some of the other artists — that’s what I did earlier today, and some of you have also received emails about this. :)

Though this was a sponsored review, it reflects the opinions and general thoughts of this weblog’s author.

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