PSA: Download Lady Gaga’s New Album for $1, NOW (Update: Promotion Over)
[Guest post by Aaron Worthing; if you have tips, please send them here. Or by Twitter @AaronWorthing.]
Update: I forgot to say that if you go through the search box on the sidebar, then Patrick gets a small donation to help keep the site going, at no additional cost to you. That’s a win-win!
Update (II): And as of 1:00 a.m, it is still available for a dollar. I am not sure when it will disappear, but act fast.
Update (III): And the promotion is over.
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I will say truthfully I haven’t even listened to a full Lady Gaga album yet. And I am underwhelmed by her single “Born this Way.” I hate it when artists think its time to tell me how to live. But what can beat a dollar for the download?
Well, in my case, free. I recently bought an Aretha Franklin CD for my mother for Mother’s Day and got a free credit to download an MP3 from Amazon.com. I thought to myself, “what am I going to do with a single dollar’s credit?” And this came along. So that is how I paid for it.
Haven’t even listened to it yet, except for a few seconds to verify it was in my phone.
Anyway, it’s straining the servers as we speak. So please if you are inclined, use the sidebar to search for it. The album is “Born This Way” and the deal only applies to an MP3 download of it. And they promise that if you put in the order today, you get the deal, even if it might take longer to physically download it.
By the way, I hope there is a good reason why she looks like a motorcycle here…
Hat tip: Althouse, who says “join the traffic jam.”
[Posted and authored by Aaron Worthing.]
that is very exciting cause of Lady Gaga is the future like India and cassava chips and Windows 8
happyfeet (a55ba0) — 5/23/2011 @ 5:06 pmWell, now we know why happyfeet dresses like he does.
SPQR (26be8b) — 5/23/2011 @ 5:15 pmYou also get 20 gb of cloud storage for all your other music, if you buy an album, so that’s a buck for a very nice service.
Amazon’s cloud player is everthing iTunes is not. Convenient, fast, light on system resources, etc.
Remember Patterico trying to sync his music from one system to another? With Amazon’s player all your music is on there, ready to go, no matter what you log on with (as long as it’s compatible).
I think Apple is planing a competitor, and that’s why Amazon is pushing loss leaders such as this album. They want you to try their product out before you commit to Apple’s.
Anyway, I’m a big fan of the player. It’s great for work computers, or school computers, because you have your entire personal music library instantly.
Dustin (c16eca) — 5/23/2011 @ 5:26 pmAnd then you can download some real music.
It’s one of those recordings that show up on almost any list of great performances, from long before Lady Gaga was born to probably long after she’s the answer to a trivia question.
And if you don’t want to download it, you can get as a regular CD, for which there’s a link on the page.
(link was done through Patterico’s widget).
kishnevi (d6767c) — 5/23/2011 @ 5:35 pmActually, come to think of it, I think you need to enter the site through Patterico’s widget for him to get credit for a purchase. So enter Furtwangler Beethoven in the widget and search in MP downloads if you actually do it.
kishnevi (d6767c) — 5/23/2011 @ 5:39 pmyeah, you have to use patterico’s widget, hence the lack of link.
Aaron Worthing (73a7ea) — 5/23/2011 @ 5:47 pmIs it OK if I don’t but we say I did?
Ag80 (1bc637) — 5/23/2011 @ 5:55 pmActually I believe Patterico gets an even bigger cut if you follow a direct link to the specific item, with his tag on it. So try the following links for the Lady Gaga album and for Kish’s recommendation. At least, I think those are correctly formatted to give Patterico the maximum commission.
Milhouse (9ef3cc) — 5/23/2011 @ 6:16 pmOops, try again:
Actually I believe Patterico gets an even bigger cut if you follow a direct link to the specific item, with his tag on it. So try the following links for the Lady Gaga album and for Kish’s recommendation. At least, I think those are correctly formatted to give Patterico the maximum commission.
Milhouse (9ef3cc) — 5/23/2011 @ 6:16 pmthat was very easy Mr. Milhouse thank you for the link so far my favorite song is the “Government Hooker” one
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 5/23/2011 @ 6:27 pmmilhouse
wasn’t aware of that. i’ll have to ask patrick how to do this for future reference.
Aaron Worthing (73a7ea) — 5/23/2011 @ 6:32 pmok no now my favoritest one is a country-inflected one called “You and I”
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 5/23/2011 @ 6:32 pmshe sings like a goddamn angel
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 5/23/2011 @ 6:33 pmAaron, just substitute the item ID (the ISBN if it’s a book) for the one in the links I supplied.
Milhouse (9ef3cc) — 5/23/2011 @ 6:59 pmthe Americano one I just don’t get it
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 5/23/2011 @ 7:43 pmThey’d have to pay me more than $1.
Dave (in MA) (102b24) — 5/23/2011 @ 9:08 pmshe sings like a goddamn angel
Comment by happyfeet — 5/23/2011 @ 6:33 pm
God-damned angel = devil
Feets, I don’t think you knew how right you were. She has a great voice. But IMO her subject matter (in some songs/videos anyway) is pretty depraved.
no one you know (fd287d) — 5/23/2011 @ 9:14 pmI’m still sticking with the country song as my favorite. Mostly the cd isn’t a lot of fun.
here is my cheeky depraved song I like a lot lately
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 5/23/2011 @ 9:16 pmMeh, Lady Gaga just doesn’t do it for me. Maybe I’ve officially crossed the Rubicon of old-fartdom or something. I used to be “with it”, but now I’m not even sure what “it” is 🙂
Bob Reed (5f2db5) — 5/23/2011 @ 10:31 pmLady Gaga likes to kick puppies and steal lollipops from babies so they can cry.
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/23/2011 @ 10:37 pmSo happy that a quad is my only desire to ride! EVER!
Gaga an Gage are close right? For some reason i don’t think this one could even fake playing baseball!
Though she will play the copy cat for as long as folks hand her their parents money.
RRR (81cf01) — 5/24/2011 @ 2:32 amDownload Lady GaGa? Why on Earth would I want to do that? For a dollar? Not worth it. Wait. I pay the dollar? I thought somebody was offering me a dollar to do this to punch up some numbers which couldn’t be managed any other way. Sort of payola and it wasn’t worth a buck.
Richard Aubrey (cafc94) — 5/24/2011 @ 4:35 amBut ME pay?
As the infamously obnoxious tennis player used to whine, “You cannot be serious!”
I can’t imagine myself doing anything so horrible that the appropriate punishment would be listening to a Lady Gaga album.
Wright (8a7bfe) — 5/24/2011 @ 7:16 amI don’t get it personally I think America’s pop culture – really broadly defined – is about the only thing worth celebrating about faily faily America anymores
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 5/24/2011 @ 7:27 amMy 9 year old wanted this for her iPad yesterday. Desperately. I am weak.
JD (29e1cd) — 5/24/2011 @ 7:58 amYou couldn’t pay me to listen to that crap.
LowKey (8096f2) — 5/24/2011 @ 11:51 amFree downloads beat downloads for a dollar. The operateive word there is ‘free’.
Lady Gaga looks like a glamourous wicked witch of the west.
lee (cae7a3) — 5/24/2011 @ 1:47 pm“[S]taining the servers”?
Harsh, man.
Beldar (7c0dd5) — 5/24/2011 @ 3:08 pmFree downloads of Lemonade Mouf would be nice.
JD (b98cae) — 5/24/2011 @ 3:55 pmhere is lemonade mouf I hadn’t heard of them now I am culturally enriched
what are they wearing exactly it’s like a hyperbolic satire of middle America
are they from Iowa?
happyfeet (a55ba0) — 5/24/2011 @ 3:59 pmI do not know where they are supposed to be from. They are very multi-culti, yet not at all.
JD (d48c3b) — 5/24/2011 @ 4:12 pmthey are a lot the anti-gaga
happyfeet (a55ba0) — 5/24/2011 @ 4:33 pmbeldar
good catch. heh.
Aaron Worthing (73a7ea) — 5/24/2011 @ 4:33 pmWould you say that Lemonade Mouf are as yummy as, say, summer lemonade cupcakes?
I’d have to say a couple of them might be…
Just sayin’
Very anti-Gaga, which, you know, kind of works for me. But some suspect me to be a bit hatey sometimes 😉
Bob Reed (5f2db5) — 5/24/2011 @ 5:08 pmYour no compassionate conservative.
/Sarcasm off
I was told by stupid liberals[redundant I know] that being pro-gay was compassionate conservative
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/24/2011 @ 5:10 pmLemony cupcakes sound really good. I will endeavor to find a diet that includes them.
JD (b98cae) — 5/24/2011 @ 5:26 pmsummer lemonade! I will see what they have this weekend.
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 5/24/2011 @ 5:35 pmAccording to our DVR, we have watched Lemonade Mouf 37 times.
JD (3ad5b9) — 5/24/2011 @ 6:11 pmThe cover art is as ugly as the singer.
Veronal (0692b1) — 5/25/2011 @ 2:25 am