Idolator

Sony BMG is leaving DRM behind and entering the MP3 market ... with albums that you can buy in stores. But in a move designed to counteract the ever-shrinking amount of floor space devoted to music, those albums won't be on CD or DVD-Audio or DualDisc some other sort of disc. No, they'll be on cards—you know, the sort of dinky plastic gift cards that you now see offering things like iTunes credits and American Express-mediated money at the checkout counters of your big-box retailers in these high fructose corn syrup-averse times! And they'll also be more expensive than $9.99, natch. What, you thought you were going to get off easy on this? More »