Charlie Hunter's rockin' new album Copperopolis
came out a few weeks ago. We saw him perform the new stuff at his annual x-mas gig at Yoshi's, and it's a fun departure from his recent jazzy albums.
Hunter has a long history of offering free downloads of his live performances, and now he's selling DRM
-free versions of his recent albums on his web site . Even better, he's got the pricing model just about right: Around 10 bucks for the album in MP3 or AAC format, and around 13 bucks for the album encoded in the lossless FLAC
format.
Although I wish the MP3 version was a little cheaper, you've got to commend an artist for doing everything so right:
(Some online music services also get it - take a peek at AllOfMP3.com and eMusic.com)