Buh-bye, CDNOW
Looks like CDNOW, the online music store that I’ve always used to look up song titles and see who did which songs on the Hanhurst tape, has become a mere front end to Amazon. Going to CDNOW at www.cdnow.com just results in an immediate forward to Amazon (with a CDNOW header at the top). Yet another step backwards for competition and diversity…
Hmmmm…wonder if all my old CDNOW links will work.
Nope…they just take you to the new, improved (not) Amazon/CDNOW combined front page. Sorry, but I probably won’t go back and repair them all.
After a lot of web searching, I found an article describing what’s going on. CDNOW hasn’t been sold to Amazon; Amazon is just handling the web sales. Huh…so I guess if one buys a CD after initially trying to go to the CDNOW site, CDNOW gets the sale. But one gets the Amazon front end, so what’s the point of not using Amazon in the first place?
I agree, man. Music customers of the Internet are being treated like shit these days. I’ve got an idea. Why don’t we start a WWW-wide boycott of the service until CDNOW listens to the needs of its customers and becomes a self-autonomous company again?
This sucks. Does anyone have a suggestion of another site to use for referencing?
I REALLY miss the old CDNOW!!!
It had so many amazing features that have disappeared in the new Amazon site 🙁 Does anyone know of any sites for petitions or anything to bring back some old cd now features?
Tim