Recession Proof Music Purchasing from Zune
Well, maybe not recession proof, but I love this site You have to check out the Zune Pass microsite from Microsoft. Wes Moss makes a good case for the subscription model, especially since I have no free cash to buy music anymore. Too bad I don’t own a PC. Probably the one set back I can see right now to my Mac.
I worked on a promotional website for another financial institution a while back and wanted to do something very similar to this. The chips didn’t fall in our favor and we went another route… but I’m glad someone slapped this crap together. It seems really cliche, but I think it works. People get this sort of thing: Basic economics of saving… a smart dude telling you how much you can save with clean design and simple comparisons. I love this and wanted to share. The banner ad took me from Last.fm to the microsite and I wanted to subscribe… yet, can’t. Brilliant.
This is also a reason why I don’t like iTunes… if I’m going to pay that much, might as well buy the CD and have copies in multiple places. And even though iTunes now has DRM free music, it still still irks me to download music from them unless I’m desperate to hear some random Jesus Jones track. Remember them? Eh?