DrBenway
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In his CNET blog, journalist Steve Guttenberg reports that Peter Gabriel has partnered with B&W to offer lossless music downloads of live sessions recorded at Real World Studios. The service is subscription based. From the post:
Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios has launched a download service with high-end British loudspeaker manufacturer Bowers & Wilkins.
It's called the B&W Music Club, and it offers exclusive monthly albums to members, recorded at Gabriel's Real World Studios in southwestern England and downloadable in a "lossless" file format with CD-quality sound. Subscribers pay $66.33 for a year (that's $5.86 per recording), or $46.79 for a six-month run. Subscribers can download one album per month.
Sounds interesting, no?
Edit:
Files are in Apple lossless format (ALAC).
I went to the site to check it out, and it turns out that there is a free three month trial offer. The trial subscription does NOT require you to provide credit card info, which is very unusual and very nice. You get "EP" versions of the albums, which means a three track sampler. I'm downloading the sampler for the current offering, the new Little Axe album, Bought for a Dollar, Sold for a Dime right now. LIttle Axe's music is a sort of post-modern take on electric blues, with elements of funk, dub and electronica. I have a copy of one of their previous albums, Hard Grind, which is quite good. I'll let you know how this new stuff sounds after I get a chance to listen.
Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios has launched a download service with high-end British loudspeaker manufacturer Bowers & Wilkins.
It's called the B&W Music Club, and it offers exclusive monthly albums to members, recorded at Gabriel's Real World Studios in southwestern England and downloadable in a "lossless" file format with CD-quality sound. Subscribers pay $66.33 for a year (that's $5.86 per recording), or $46.79 for a six-month run. Subscribers can download one album per month.
Sounds interesting, no?
Edit:
Files are in Apple lossless format (ALAC).
I went to the site to check it out, and it turns out that there is a free three month trial offer. The trial subscription does NOT require you to provide credit card info, which is very unusual and very nice. You get "EP" versions of the albums, which means a three track sampler. I'm downloading the sampler for the current offering, the new Little Axe album, Bought for a Dollar, Sold for a Dime right now. LIttle Axe's music is a sort of post-modern take on electric blues, with elements of funk, dub and electronica. I have a copy of one of their previous albums, Hard Grind, which is quite good. I'll let you know how this new stuff sounds after I get a chance to listen.