Napster Gets Cheaper--But Not Cheap Enough

May 19th, 2009 - BusinessWeek

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Finally, there's a music subscription service priced to sell-but only if you're stuck in the PC era.

Six months after buying Napster, retailer Best Buy has relaunched the basic version of the service for just $5 a month. That's a nice price cut from the $13 it used to cost. As Engadget points out, this is a helluva deal for the real music lover: access to seven million songs for a fiver. "Wouldn't you rather have this than a $5 Mocha Frappuccino?," writes Thomas Ricker.

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