Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin $1.99

If you participated in the promo detailed on Fatwallet, be sure to check your account. They had some kind of screw-up, and a bunch of people (including me) were charged the full price for their download. Amazon is refunding the charges, but you have to call or email them.

9/23 (Wednesday):

FANTASTIC deal.

Also, Free Bob Dylan song from his new album: Mississippi

^As nice as that deal this, it's not as nice as getting the whole Led Zeppelin shebang for $9.99 from Rhapsody a couple of months back.

I'm not a big Led Zeppelin fan but couldn't pass up that deal

true that! one of the best deals ever imo.

Doll Domination by The Pussycat Dolls $2.99

Brushfire Fairytales by Jack Johnson $3.99

All Time Greatest Hits by Louis Armstrong $5.00

Breakout by Miley Cyrus $5.00

In The Pocket by James Taylor $5.00

Med sud I eyrum vid spilum endalaust by Sigur Ros $5.00

Astral Weeks by Van Morrison $5.99 The CD version is $10.99

9/24 (Wednesday):

Another great album, althought not my favorite of his.


Also, holy crap at that Pussycat Dolls price. Not something I'm interested in whatsoever, but it just came out yesterday...I mean DAMN.

Live At The Regal by B.B. King $1.99

DAMMIT!! I've spent a small fortune lately to replace all the Dolly stuff I had on 8-track, vinyl, and cassette tapes and add in all the new stuff. Just missed this deal by a couple of days!

9/25 (Thursday):

9/26 (Friday): Vol. 3: The Life & Times of S. Carter by Jay-Z - $0.99

Friday 5

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes by TV on the Radio

This isn't a bargain at Amazon. Rhapsody is selling U2's Joshua Tree mp3 album cheap.

The Joshua Tree Album by U2 $2.99

9/27 (Saturday): The Best Of by the Gipsy Kings - $3.99

Big Bluegrass Special by The Green River Boys Featuring Glen Campbell $3.99

Drinkin' by Merle Haggard $3.99

Greatest Hits Live! by Sammy Hagar $3.99

Love Songs Volume II by Kenny Rogers $3.99

9/28 (Sunday):

9/29 (Monday): La Radiolina by Manu Chao - $2.99

9/30 (Tuesday): Paper Trail by T.I. - $3.99

I fucking love Amazon so much.

Picked up Doll Domination for the lady and Sigur Ros for myself, thanks so much for keeping this updated. Crazy good deals.

10/1 (Wednesday): Exodus by Bob Marley & the Wailers - $1.99

Thanks. I can't believe or understand some of these deals. I can accept giving out an old catalog title that otherwise might not even move a copy a month, but a brand-new bestselling album download for $4? How do they make any money here?

I think the idea is that even if Amazon only gets $1 of it and the label/artist get $3, it's still money that they otherwise wouldn't have gotten. At $4, they're going to get a lot of album sales from people who probably never would have bought it otherwise.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I've bought a lot of these cheap albums simply because they were things I was mildly interested in and they were really cheap. In turn, I've also been using Amazon for downloading a lot of other stuff as well, so maybe Amazon doesn't get anything from these cheap album sales (except maybe a few cents to cover bandwidth costs or something) and they're depending on these sales as a booster of other business on the site.

I must cost them more than $4 to sell the download of a brand-new album; I don't know what the studio charges for the purchase, but it's got to be more than that. Even without postage, storage cost or rent, they've got to be losing money on that transaction, right?

I read Amazon has moved above Target in music sales. These mp3 discounts must be part of that strategy. It's getting the word out for sure.

At this point, Amazon isn't interested in turning a profit on MP3s -- their goal is to lure people away from iTunes. Most people still don't know that Amazon's selling digital music.

If you remember when Amazon first opened, they did the same thing with books, and Jeff Bezos was upfront about the fact that he wasn't even going to try turning a profit until the company was established as a major retailer.