Green Tee Readings

From the department of We Don’t Do Math Too Good:

Because you’re a loyal eMusic subscriber we’re extending you a special offer to upgrade your account to one of our new Connoisseur download plans. eMusic Connoisseurs will be able to download 100 tracks each month for only $24.99. Not enough, you say? Download 200 tracks each month for only $49.99. Do you live and die for the next great album? For a limited time get 300 downloads each month for only $74.99. Each plan is only 25 cents per track!

Now, I love my eMusic subscription. I think they have a great service by providing me what I want (good music from a large variety of styles) without hassles that I don’t want (DRM), and they manage to do so at a good price point. (It’s possible that it’s too good of a price point, but that’s something that I’ll worry more about when I’m something other than a Poor College Student.)

I am not, however, as bad at math as someone in eMusic’s marketing department thinks I am. My current plan gives me 90 downloads for $19.99 a month (this plan is, by the way, no longer available). This is a better song/money rate than any of the plans they’re offering. I’d love to be able shrug off the $.02 increase in my per song rate to get 210 extra songs a month. That would be the best fully legal way for me to obtain new songs.

I can’t though, and have given eMusic no reason to think that I’m about to start. If I were one to buy their booster packs, especially on a consistent basis, upgrading my plan would be a right-o keen idea. I’ve yet to buy one, for reasons being a Poor College Student, and wanting to support other avenues of acquiring music legally, namely used CD stores. Also, I enjoy eating food, and I need to pay for things like car insurance, gas and tuition. And rent.

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