Grateful Dead Offers MP3 and FLAC Downloads Without DRM

[James Fee]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://stores.musictoday.com/store/dept.asp?band%5Fid=171&sfid=7&dept%5Fid=6764' target='_blank'>http://stores.musictoday.com/store/dept.asp?band%5Fid=171&sfid=7&dept%5Fid=6764</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Love the Grateful Dead? Now you can get any of the recordings in their live Dick’s Picks series over the Internet. Single songs (up to 10 minutes long, which cuts out most of the extended jams the band is famous for) are available at the iTunes store. Full tracks are available at the Grateful Dead store in 128K and 256K MP3 and lossless (FLAC) formats. The lower-quality MP3 formats cost less than the higher-quality MP3s, and the lossless files cost a few bucks more. But the prices are still not bad – $23.50 for a 4–CD set, with no shipping or handling."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/DECD275.jpg" /><br /><br />How cool is that? Lossless FLAC downloads without DRM! How come the Grateful Dead understands how you can make money without DRM and the RIAA doesn't. I'm going to buy a couple albums in FLAC right now. :rock on dude!:

[Kevin & Beth Remhof]

That's pretty sweet! Glad to see another band do this. The Barenaked Ladies do the same thing at their music site (https://www.werkshop.com/bnllive/index.jsp). I picked up their Christmas album last year in MP3 format. It was great. I played it at work, transferred the files home and loaded it up there. No DRM to get in the way.