100 Free albums from Xbox Music + $1.99 boxsets

[tthurman]

Not sure if there is any interest in this here, but quikah posted this over in the deals forum at anandtech.

Requires Windows 8, Windowsphone or Windows 10 preview.

Install the "Music Deals" app. Scroll down to "Holiday Freebies" and get downloading.

Normally these free music deals are rather hohum, either aging rockers trying to peddle their new album or blah pop artists. But this, holy cow, everything from pop to rock classics. They are DRM free 320 Kbps mp3.

here is a sampling:

Jessie J – Sweet Talker (Deluxe)
Imagine Dragons – Night Visions (Deluxe)
Eminem – Recovery (Explicit)
U2 – The Joshua Tree (Deluxe, Remastered)
Norah Jones – Come Away With Me
Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed
Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak
Linkin Park – A Thousand Suns
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist (Deluxe)
Eagles – The Long Run (Remastered)
Stone Temple Pilots – Purple
Fun – Some Nights
Lady Gaga – The Fame
John Lennon – Imagine (2010 Remaster)
Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream (Deluxe)
Rihanna – Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded
Weezer – Blue Album (Deluxe)
The Weeknd – Trilogy
Katy Perry – The Complete Confection
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin (Remastered)

There is a "Must-Have Box Sets" category with $1.99 boxsets:

The Who
Prince
Led Zeppelin
R.E.M.
Rolling Stones
and more!

[Adultery]

Be careful if you need to add a card for the service. They charged me fir a year and a half for a subscription to their music service after a three month free trial. Needless to say I never got any of that back.