Good news for those of you who find iTunes Digital Rights Management (DRM) irksome. You can now purchase DRM-free MP3 downloads of both our first and second records on Amazon.com.

No DRM means that you can easily transfer your purchases to the MP3 player of your choice, and use your purchases on as many machines as you like. You don’t have to juggle licenses or authorize or deauthorize machines.

Where You Been So Long on Amazon

You can also purchase downloads of our soon-to-be-out-of-print first record, Just a Spoonful. We probably have about twenty five CDs left in inventory, and don’t plan to repress the record any time soon.

Just a Spoonful on Amazon.com

For more information on why DRM is bad for consumers, check out this earlier post:

Holy crap, BuyMusic.com sucks

If you’ve had the misfortune of using BuyMusic.com’s download service, you’ve likely had an experience similar to mine.

I needed to learn the old Neil Young/ Buffalo Springfield song ‘Flying on the Ground is Wrong’ for a gig. Lacking a CD or LP copy, I decided to try to find a download of it on the web.

I have an eMusic account, and have never had a single problem with it. But eMusic didn’t have the original track, so I Googled it, and found that BuyMusic.com had the track for $.99. No problem. I paid a buck, checked out, downloaded their little download manager, and downloaded the track.

Right off the bat, something was wrong. It saved the file as a .wma file rather than an MP3, and never let me specify the format I wanted. But it got far worse almost immediately. (more…)