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I recently saw a video from an artist promoting her new album where she said that if you bought it on iTunes there would be a few bonus songs and video.  More and more artists seem to be doing this as a marketing strategy – browse iTunes and you’ll see albums with bonus tracks, acoustic versions and music videos.  But if you pick up the CD in the store all you get are the standard tracks.

Even though that’s their perogative as the artist, part of me gets a little irked at this.  Who needs an incentive to buy songs on iTunes?  The majority of people seem to download music anyway, so why not reward those who make the effort to actually buy the physical CD in a store?  I’m not an iTunes snob and I’ve downloaded my fair share of music, but I always prefer to buy the CD if I can find it.  Why not show a little love for this dying breed?

How do you buy your music?  I won’t judge.. :)