----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Marcinowski" <matthew@beattheindiedrum.com>
> Though it can be said Weed's selection leaves much to be desired as 
> of
> now and that is a very, very big con. I don't know about others but 
> I
> can't say I've ever had any trouble finding 40 mp3's to download 
> every
> month on Emusic. In fact, I find myself buying up more 'booster 
> packs',
> if you will. However, I would wager I lean more towards the 'indie' 
> side
> of the room than most on the list so the lack of fringe artists on
> Emusic (which is quite true) doesn't seem to bother me all that 
> much.

I'm not sure what was meant by "fringe-of-mainstream" in that context, 
whether they were talking about actual fringe artists (of which there 
are plenty on eMusic) or about bands that are on the edge of 
mainstream acceptance (with the recent addition of the Merge label, 
along with Matador, K, Kill Rock Stars, Bar/None, Restless and many 
other large and well-known indies, there's plenty of those as well). 
Add in nearly the entirety of the Fantasy catalogue (literally 
hundreds of classic jazz releases from the Fantasy, Riverside and 
Pablo labels, plus Big Star, CCR, and those Stax/Volt records not 
owned by Atlantic) and the recent addition of the Sun Records 
catalogue and...well, I've got an old deal that they only offered to 
people who switched over after their elimination of unlimited 
downloads, 300 tracks for $50 a month.  I *never* have leftover tracks 
at the end of the billing cycle.

S