Free Music At Napster... Again

Posted by Chad Criswell May 25, 2006

Recently Napster started advertising that you can listen to complete tracks for free. My first thought was, hey, wasn't that how they got into trouble in the first place? It turns out that this time it is legal and for people like me that love to listen but are very selective about what we buy, Napster's new marketing strategy may be a great new option for music lovers of all kinds.

Now, without even subscribing to the Napster service you can listen to any song in their millions of tracks for free in its entirety. I have always found the little thirty second preview from most of the music sites to be less than adequate. Especially when dealing with longer, classical pieces of music. With this new free play plan you can listen to any song up to five times before having to buy it. If you like the song enough to buy it it can be downloaded to your hard drive for just ninety nine cents.

For music lovers that have widely varying tastes or for people that simply don't know what they like this new option sounds like a great, and possibly long overdue, upgrade to the music download industry.