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Downloads redux

Posted at 2:17 AM on May 20, 2006 by John Zech
Filed under: The blog

Some of us were posting a while back about our lack of interest in downloading music from the internet for iPod use. Some have speculated that classical music consumers just aren't that into downloads. But that may not be true.

Urge.com, MTV and Microsoft's new challenge to Apple iTunes, went online Wednesday and they are hoping you'll be using them for your classical tracks.

The full story is in The Critics Notebook from Friday's New York Times.

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