This just in from Macworld, yesterday's San Francisco-based celebration of all things Apple...

This coming April, iTunes, which currently charges 99 cents per song, will lower a "vast majority" of its single-song prices to 69 cents, although some popular tracks could remain at 99 cents or go up as high as $1.29. Most albums will be sold at $9.99.

Hmmm, I'm thinking now you'll be able to get, say, Journey or John Waite for lower prices (rejoice, '80s fans!), but Rihanna or John Mayer could cost you more. We'll have to wait and see...

Also, Apple will drop DRM -- digital rights management -- copy protection from a "vast majority" of its 8-million song catalog; among other bummers, DRM often limited whether you could copy a song onto a CD or another computer (and, for that matter, how many times you could copy said song). Previously, music from EMI and several independent labels weren't subject to DRM. Now material from three major music honchos -- Sony BMG, Universal and Warner -- will also be DRM-less.

I'm thinking this is extremely good news, because now I can send out even more copies of SD's party CDs! Yep, just like THIS ONE, which one critic raved "I feel all cold, like I'll never be happy again."

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