Click to download: Mercury nominees | Chris Salmon

Save yourself some money and check out the shortlisted artists for this year's Mercury Prize online for freeWhen the Mercury prize was created in 1992, the only way to hear all 10 of the nominated albums was to get along to your local record shop and buy them (which would have cost about £200 in today's money). Not any more, of course. Of the dozen albums unveiled on Tuesday's shortlist, 10 are available to stream in full, for free, via Spotify, while We7.com is streaming nine of the albums wit...

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