Now that I have a broadband connection, I've been seriously tempted to download MP3 albums, particularly albums from the Folkways label. Smithsonian/Folkways has its own Smithsonian Global Sound Website, where you can download albums for $9.99, and single cuts for 99¢ - and you can also download liner notes for almost all Folkways albums for free.

At Amazon, you can download singles for 89¢ or 99¢, and albums are $8.99 (no liner notes, but you can get them free at smithsonianglobalsound). And if you go to http://www.amazon.mudcat.org, Mudcat gets a cut.

Click here to see all 2,114 Folkways albums offered at Amazon (but please buy through the http://www.amazon.mudcat.org link.


What I'd really like, though, is a bargain. If I could buy albums in lots of 100 for a big discount, I'd jump at the chance. Anybody know how I might be able to arrange that?

-Joe-