Prepare to be swindleeeeed

For quite some time now I’ve been a subscriber to [eMusic][], a digital music site that offers DRM-free MP3 tracks by artists on independent (non-major) labels. (At one point I cancelled my subscription because I wasn’t finding that much to download, but I re-joined after a few months and have been with the service ever since.) eMusic also has a quite active set of message boards, and from time to time I’ve posted on various topics, most notably my thoughts on eMusic’s business model and prospects vis-a-vis the digital music industry in general. After a while I thought I really should be posting my comments to a blog rather than to someone else’s message board. At the same time I wanted to try out the [WordPress blogging software][WordPre] as an alternative to [my current somewhat-juryrigged setup][my curr] for my [personal blog][persona]. Thus “Swindleeeee!!!!!” was born. (For why I chose this name, please see “[The story of ‘swindleeeee’][The sto].”) I hope to post on a regular basis about my eMusic experiences, as well as my experiences with other digital music services like [last.fm][lastfm], [Pandora][], and others I’ve used off and on over the years. [eMusic]: http://www.emusic.com/ [WordPre]: http://wordpress.org/about/ [my curr]: http://www.hecker.org/site/colophon [persona]: http://www.hecker.org/ [The sto]: /2006/06/11/the-story-of-swindleeeee/ [lastfm]: http://last.fm/ [Pandora]: http://www.pandora.com/