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As taken from this aom3 thread, here are this months music shop bonus offers.

MP3Fiesta.com
Recommend-a-friend referral scheme. Get a friend to sign up an account via your url and you will get a $50 bonus on your own balance. Click here.

$100 USD + 25% Bonus ($25 For Free)
$50 USD + 20% Bonus ($10 For Free)
$40 USD + 15% Bonus ($6 For Free)
$30 USD + 10% Bonus ($3 For Free)

MP3sale.ru
€30 (+ €10 FREE)
€50 (+ €50 FREE)
€100 (+ €50 FREE)

MusicMP3.ru (e-gold)
€29.9 + 10% Bonus (€3 FOR FREE)
€39.9 + 15% Bonus (€6 FOR FREE)
€49.9 + 20% Bonus (€10 FOR FREE)

MP3skyline.com / MP3xclusive.com
$45 USD + 33% Bonus ($15 For Free)
$35 USD + 15% Bonus ($5 For Free)

GoMusic.ru
75 USD +10% bonus
90 USD +15% bonus
120 USD +20% bonus

Legalsounds
USD $39 and get 50 free songs
USD $50 and get 80 free songs
USD $100 and get 200 free songs

As what could be a new change that all shops might follow, MusicMP3 is the latest sheep, silently converted their prices to Euros a few days ago.

As confirmed by a moderator at Aom3, MusicMP3 didn’t follow MP3Fiesta’s awful decision to also convert users balances as well, keeping it nicely relative with the new change in music prices.

[MusicMP3]

With iTunes being the market leader in digital music shops and loved by many, it goes without saying that iTunes has its fair amount of critics. With its high price structure, stubborn software functionality and presumptuous product design, people cannot justify paying a high price for music bundled with restrictions.

So many digital music shoppers are turning to other sources, specifically Russian and eastern European based online digital music shops. Countries such as Russian And Ukraine have copyright laws that are not updated to cover digital media, allowing many digital shops a foundation for selling music at ridiculously low prices without any restrictions. It’s a strong consumer demand that Apple chooses ignores as long as it continues to print money and maintain a dominant share of the market.

But it won’t be long till many of these European shops gain more exposure and attract more users. Inevitably it was also get unfavourable legal attention from western countries. If the growth trend continues, three speculative outcomes are likely to happen.
1. Music industry representative organisations will take legal action and eventually a case will follow through in stating the legality of these shops. Even after all the commotion and media hype of allofmp3.com, still no jurisdiction has simply stated whether these music digital shops are legal.
2. These shops continue to operate, while American and other western countries continue to bully credit card companies, e.g. Visa (an American company) into banning transactions on these shops.
3. An unlikely outcome, but most favourable among everyone, Other drm-free music shops gain enough market share to scare Apple into making changes. Apple is will be forced to listen to what the consumer wants and drop their controlling ways, changing their business model to compete with eastern European music shops.

So just how good, or bad are these Eastern-European music shops? Here is a small list of the cheapest digital music shops on the internet.

1. Legalsounds.com
Price per Track: $0.09
Catalogue: n/a
Other Shops of Similar Price: none

2. Iomoio.com
Price per Track: $0.10
Catalogue: 900,000+ songs
Other Shops of Similar Price: none

3. Soundsbox.com
Price per Track: $0.14
Catalogue: n/a
Other Shops of Similar Price: Millisong.com

4. Lavamus.com
Price per Track: $0.15
Catalogue: 2,500,000+ Songs
Other Shops of Similar Price: MusicMP3.ru, MP3VA.com, MP3.ua

5. MP3sale.ru
Price per Track: $0.16
Catalogue: 1,900,000+ songs
Other Shops of Similar Price: none

# iTunes Music Store
Price per Track - $0.99
Catalogue - 8,000,000+ songs

One thing Musicmp3 is good for, is that module in the right hand side of their homepage, ‘Most Popular’. If your like me and keep up with the UK Top 40 or US Billboard Charts, then you should consider bookmarking MusicMP3 for checking out the latest main stream artists releases. New releases always appear on Musicmp3 very quickly or even before their release date and that handy little ‘Most Popular’ box makes it that much easier.

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