And when I’m saying free, I mean DRM free. In fact, it’s even more expensive to buy free music than to buy DRM protected one
The reason for this aberration is that it’s high quality (256kbs) encoding, so you get either semi good DRM protected for a lower price or high quality for a higher price. However, this doesn’t apply to full album sales.

Overall, this is a good news for many users that were pissed of by Apple’s proprietary DRM technology that only works on iPods (ok I have a video iPod so…). This is also good news since it’s a mini earthquake that will force the whole industry to move in this direction sooner or later, let’s see how the Microsoft camp reacts now…