Digital Download Shop Price Comparison

There are almost a million of those mp3 shops out there. I've taken the most popular ones to try to compare prices and to show you what shop to use next time you're going mp3-shopping.

I have taken the single Hoxygen - My Obsession as example buying the highest possible mp3 quality:

Shop:            Quality:    Price (€):
Planetamixrecords 192         4,95
iTunes.com       256 (AAC)    5,99
Amazon.de        256          6,93
Musicload.de     256          7,95
djshop.de        320          7,98
Junodownload.com 320          8,16
Beatport.com      ?           11,7

Here is another example with Emozioni Libere - Per Te:

Shop:            Quality:    Price (€):
Amazon.com       256         4,48
Junodownload.com 320         5,29
iTunes.com       256 (AAC)   5,99
Napster.com      256         7,44
Myxer.com         ?          8,91
7digital.com     320         9,33
shop2download.com 192        9,90
Dance-tunes.com   ?          9,99
djshop.de        320         10,98
djtunes.com      320         10,99
Dancefuel.dj      ?          11,61
beatsdigital.com 320         13,32
djmr.com         320         13,39

The prices are for the entire release, so if you only go shopping for certain tracks the price picture might look different.

So as you see it pays off checking out the market before going mp3-shopping