In the spirit of saving the best for last, you'll have to voluntarily read through this news article to get to the picture of the costume I want for Halloween. Let me just blaze through this story as quickly as possible, because I'm stoked to show you the costume!
Essentially, eMusic has a new DRM-free tool for downloading music instead of using its old proprietary downloader. The magic part about the OPEN SOURCE tool is that it runs on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux, meaning it'll work with programs such as iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player, and Amarok. All of your songs will automatically download into your respective library as you purchase the music. Anyone can then freely edit the tool, and since it's based on Mozilla open source, Firefox extensions are a go! Gotta hand it to eMusic for this one, I like what they're doing by embracing an open source agreement.
Meanwhile, Epitaph has decided to pull out of eMusic because they aren't gettin' enough money per track. eMusic gives 27 to 33-cents a song, whereas iTunes gives 65 to 84-cents a song. It kind of blows to lose Elliott Smith and DangerDoom on eMusic, but whatevs.
Now time for that costume!
