Amazon's MP3 Pricing Plan: Looks Like They Went The "Pick Songs Out Of A Hat" Route [What Are You Talking About? Shopping!]

Amazon has entered the world of charging $1.29 for certain songs, following the lead taken by iTunes yesterday and rendering somewhat irrelevant the snarky remarks of Diggsters . By and large, iTunes' pricing scheme has resulted in popular songs having their prices jacked up; in contrast, if there's some logic to which songs saw a hike on Amazon, I'm certainly not seeing it. Scanning the top 100 downloads as of 10 a.m. Pacific, it isn't until No. 24 that a $1.29 track appears: Jamie Foxx's "Blam...

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