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Try before you buy (4)

Jan 18, 2008

I usually like to be able to try something before I buy it. If I'm getting a new cell phone or camera, I want to try it out, see how it works, see what I like and don't like about it. Reading a review or getting some other second-hand opinion just doesn't cut it.

Other products are sort of cut and dry, and if you've tried one, you've tried them all. I don't need to try a basketball before I buy one. Same goes for a coffee maker or a TV.

Music is the type of product I like to listen to before I buy it. And it's pretty easy to do. I'm still a member of BMG, which has 30-second song samples for pretty much its entire music catalog. Amazon is another place that has song samples, and for seemingly billions of artists and albums. I made the mistake recently of buying a bunch of new music without sampling it first. Now I'm wishing I didn't buy A Jam Band Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd. It seemed like a good idea at the time. It wasn't. #business

Comments

#1	Rus	Jan 18, 2008
	One of the things I love about YouTube is you can often find "samples" that last for the whole song. BTW, last I checked, BMG's selections seemed to have dropped considerably in the past 2 or 3 years. Do you find this to be the case?

#2	Dave	Jan 20, 2008
	I could be wrong, but I think that's because BMG only sells Sony/BMG music, which means they don't sell "all the other stuff" (though I don't know what else there is).

#3	Rus	Jan 21, 2008
	Three artists come to mind from back when I used to be a member: The Beatles, Joan Jett and Maxi Priest. Frankly though, I began BMG ages ago when I was mostly collecting Classical music. Still a great deal now. Tina and I kept talking each other into joining after each of us quit, if you know what I mean. :-)

#4	Dave	Jan 22, 2008
	Yeah I've quit and rejoined several times.