Cheap Music Downloads of Emerging Artists at Mp3tunes

The mp3tunes music store has a very simple interface, Top Songs and Top Albums, on the right  and genre navigation on the left side of the home page.  The focus of this music collection is on emerging artists. Which makes it practically useless for my type of artist or CD searches. However I did find a few interesting tidbits based on free text and genre searches. But in fairness one would use this site to find new music not execute hard core searches for well know artists. The songs are DRM-free and playable on any iPod and mp3 music player. Two unusual but useful features are Mr. Locker, which keeps track of every song you purchase and lets you download the song again no charge.  The other is the Artist Café, which offers promotional opportunities and other tools for performers. Standard price is .88 cents per song and $8.88 per album. The audio bitrate is 192 Kbps VBR mp3.