Breaking the Fellowship: In the later episodes of the second season, they decide to disband after the third years graduate.

Book Ends: This is done with the sub-units' album covers the members of each unit all wear the same outfits on the covers of their last singles as they did with their first singles.

Realistically, though, they'll need to improve the iTunes LP, or reduce their album prices, to achieve it. It is probably a good thing that Apple, the world's biggest music retailer, is encouraging that. You can currently swap your email address for the pleasingly eccentric new effort from Gorky's Zygotic Mynci singer Euros Childs, while former Fugees frontman Wyclef Jean is letting visitors to his blog download his new, reggae-powered Patwa Swagga Mixtape, alongside five tracks from his upcoming album.īut, in an eloquent blog this week, Lily Allen argued that musicians do need to make money from their digital music. Of course, since Radiohead's In Rainbows, plenty of artists have given away albums digitally. In truth, 7 Digital are currently providing a more compelling reason to buy the Muse album digitally, by pricing it at £5. The iTunes LP concept is also badly let down by the fact that the bonus content won't transfer to an iPod.

Indeed, Muse's lyrics and half of their iTunes' LP pictures are already available for free on Muse's own website, alongside many more videos. The extras are only what you'd expect to find on an act's website.

But it seems unlikely to persuade too many listeners to abandon CDs or illegal downloading, or to trade up from cherrypicking the singles. That content does make the digital purchase feel more worthwhile. Alongside the music, it comes with making-of videos, lyrics, song credits, pictures and Matt Bellamy's written track-by-track commentary. The new Muse album, released on Monday, is one of just six albums currently available in the new format. The idea is that when you pay to download an album, you'll receive additional bonus content, similar to extra features on DVDs. How then to inject some life into digital album sales? Last week, Apple unveiled its cunning plan: the iTunes LP.

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