Lala just launched in beta and it’s actually a really interesting idea. (not sure if I can embrace it yet, but I give anything a shot.)
Once you visit Lala.com and sign up, you’re well on your way to listening to their entire catalog. Their model is this:
- Find the song/album you want. Listen to it in it’s entirety once the whole way through. (you can listen to each track once.)
- Then you can purchase that song for $0.10 cents which is called a “web song” which you can only listen to when you’re logged in online, but as many times as you want streaming in CD quality.
- Last you have the option of just buying those songs normally like you would on any music site but at Lala they are offering them at cheaper rates. You can even purchase the physical CD as well if they have it.
- They have a Music Mover, so you can bring your current collection online. For Mac/Windows. It will find your mp3’s that already exist on their site to your lala collection.
An example would be the Bon Iver album. You can buy the 9 web songs that you can only stream for $0.70 cents or the entire MP3 drm-free album for $6.49.
It will take some time for me to really get into this, if I even can, but it’s still a place to get cheaper music and preview the entire album. And for people that are on their computers all day, to have the album stream-able for $0.10 cents a song which is like $.70 cents an album (because of the bulk track discount,) it’s not half bad.
Just for signing up you get 50 free web songs, so give it a shot.
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