If you haven’t checked out Mere on AmieStreet yet, you’ve missed the gold rush, sorry! The free market has spoken, and has heaped accolades and sales on my humble band, driving up the price of our tunage.
Every album starts out costing $0.00 on AmieStreet and only goes up if lots of people download/buy it (tracks max out at $0.98 each). For a while, AmieStreet’s version of Switches and Dials cost a lot less than our same album on iTunes. As of now, though, the iTunes album is $9.99, and AmieStreet’s has crept up to almost $7. Interestingly, because listeners tend to buy after hearing only a 30-second sample, you can kinda tell which songs people think are the hits. Obviously the song from the Haier commercial is maxed at $0.98, and our up-tempo “hits” (Falling, Crawl, and Anything At All) are in the sixty-cent range. The slow burners, You and I, Circles, and Red in the Dark, are a bit cheaper though. Interesting, because those three are all great songs.
