So I got my first credit card bill since Amazon started their MP3 download business. It lists each transaction, so I have one album (prices vary, this one was $6.99) and a number of singles ($0.89 and up). If this isn’t micropayments, it’s close enough for me.<\/p>\n
I’ve decided I like this service. I wish the other labels would jump on board. As it is, I’ve downloaded one new album, hoping it would be as good as the others by the same artist<\/a>. (Jury is out on this.) But I’ve also downloaded almost a dozen singles: “White Wedding<\/a>” by Billy Idol, for example, or “I Want Candy<\/a>” by Bow Wow Wow, or “Undercover of the Night<\/a>” by the Rolling Stones. (All hail the early ’80s.) That’s pure gravy for the labels, since I was never, ever going to buy those albums. (I bought them once in vinyl, back in the day. But they were destroyed in the deluge.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So I got my first credit card bill since Amazon started their MP3 download business. It lists each transaction, so I have one album (prices vary, this one was $6.99) and a number of singles ($0.89 and up). If this isn’t micropayments, it’s close enough for me. I’ve decided I like this service. I wish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-2E","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}