Music Buildings Blog

Last.fm, a social music web site, has recently launched their own free music service. Users will be able to listen to any streamed track they offer up to three times. Last.fm has deals with the four major record companies and over 150,000 independent labels to provide music to its users. After the three initial free streams, users will be able to buy the tracks from sites such as iTunes, Amazon, etc.

Alibris Music is an online retailer of new, used and hard to find music online.
Alibris offers thousands of new and rare music titles and the web site’s advance search features make it easy to find hard to find music by genre, record label, title or musician.

Alibris Music’s product line includes CDs, vinyl, LPs, 8-tracks, tape cassettes and tape reels from thousands of independent sellers worldwide which makes Alibris one of the largest independent music retailers online. If you are looking for a rare music title, we suggest trying Alibris first.

Napster reported early this week that it will now begin selling music downloads as unprotected MP3 files in the spring. This will be in line with several other online retailers that already sell unprotected MP3 files to the public. Currently Napster offers monthly memberships to its download service that allows users to access unlimited music