May 30, 2004

Good, cheap independent music

If you like undiscovered music, you certainly should be visiting CD Baby fairly often. They carry a zillion not-yet-famous musicians in a wide variety of styles; their genre list includes blues, classical, country, easy listening, electronic, folk, gospel, hip hop/rap, jazz, kids/family, latin, metal, new age, pop, rock, spoken word, urban/r&b, and world.

Most discs are in the normal $10-$15 range, but they rotate many of their albums through their $5 special offer. At any given time, about 6,000 of their titles are $5 each as long as you buy three or more of those titles. They change these periodically, which makes the offer all that much more fun.

During a recent $5-each buying spree, I bought Celery Moonbeams by the Boatbuilders and The Grass Sun by Water. Both were great, and I'm pretty bummed that neither band has additional albums. (The other two discs I bought were just OK, not worth telling folks to go look for.)

If buying new releases of established artists at $15 is getting you down, you may find it fun to try buying a wad of discount music from CD Baby. Posted by lookit at May 30, 2004 10:54 AM