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Ok, another follow-up entry.

Turns out Girl Talk actually ended up using a pretty cool pricing structure for his new album (though I still prefer what I'd proposed).

Anyway, it breaks down as follows:

any price grants the download of the entire album as high-quality 320kbps mp3s
$5 or more adds the options of FLAC files, plus a one-file seamless mix of the album
$10 or more includes all of the above + a packaged CD (when it becomes available)

So this means for $10 you get the physical copy of the CD with the MP3's to tide you over. Nice!

Also, the wikipedia entry tells me there's a pretty funny prompt if you put in '$0.00':

"I may donate later"
"I can't afford to pay"
"I don't really like Girl Talk"
"I don't believe in paying for music"
"I have already purchased this album"
"I don't value music made from sampling"
"I am part of the press, radio, or music industry"
"other reasons"

I'm curious to know if they'll ever make the results of this makeshift survey public, because that's a pretty comprehensive set of answers. Who knows, if a broad enough cross-section of people were to respond (unlikely) it could serve as a pretty good statement who downloads music (and why)!

Finally, it looks like one of the tracks ("Here's the Thing") has hit the mp3 blogs.

Anyway, next time I'll come back with a 'real' entry. Promise.