Is It BuyMusic Or StealMusic?
Musician Jody Whitesides says BuyMusic.com, the new music site thatís aping the iTunes model, is ripping him and other musicians off:

Here's what I've deduced... BuyMusic.com (which I will refer to as BM) got their "vast" music library of 300,000 plus songs from a company called the Orchard. The Orchard is a distribution company that has consistently shafted artists by not paying them for CD's sold nor returning unsold CD's or cancelling contracts. So, without the express consent of what is likely lots of the Orchards catalog, BM has put it up for sale at the bargain price of $.79 a song.

So now, they can tout they're selling tracks at $.79 and they can say they have a library of music of over 300,000 songs. But what they don't tell you is that it comes from musicians/bands that were not asked for permission, and who will likely not see a penny of any sale made through BM. By their very own site policy they are committing copyright infringement. They have done this to lure PC/windows users to their site in hopes to sell the few major label aquired songs they do have, at a price that is much higher than Apple's $.99.

Note: BuyMusic.com isn't viewable on a Mac without a browser hack to turn off Javascript. (Ha! Like Mac users aren't going to zip past their lousy site right on over to iTunes.)