Amazon had the new Decemberists at a release day only price of $3.99 for the MP3 download. I had some credits at Amazon, so my price came to $1.99. Amazon just notified me that they just received a new copy of the song "This Is Why We Fight" that, in Amazon's words, "more accurately represents the artist's vision". And since I had already downloaded the album, I was able to get the new version for free. ----- Original Message ----- From: "govango" To: Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 10:28 PM Subject: Re: The upcoming Decemberists album - The King is Dead Then again, when these are on sale for the low price of 6.99 many places during that first week, I am sure that helps. michael "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" --- On Sat, 2/5/11, craigtorso@verizon.net wrote: From: craigtorso@verizon.net Subject: Re: The upcoming Decemberists album - The King is Dead To: audities@smoe.org Date: Saturday, February 5, 2011, 5:33 PM >Btw, I was reading the latest New Yorker and there's a 1 page >Decemberists article which focuses in on the fact this new record >debuted as #1 on the Billboard 200 album charts by moving just 93,000 >copies. Which, interestingly, is more than the #1 before it (Cake, 44,000 copies) and after it (Amos Lee, 40,000 copies) combined. All of the articles I've seen about this phenomenon have been rather hand-wringing in nature, but less-mentioned is this interesting cultural tidbit: supposedly "fringe" musical artists like Cake, The Decemberists, and Amos Lee have had the last three #1 albums in America. And this is bad...why, exactly? S ======================================================================= Detailed Audities-List information: To manage your Audities List settings or unsubscribe: