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My new favorite online music site

Published Tuesday, October 03, 2006 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

Well, it's new to me, at least since last week -- the beautiful majesty of free listening pleasures that is AOL Music's "Full CD Listening Party." Thank AOL and Best Buy for this clever page, that lets you hear new CDs in their entireity each week before you decide whether to buy them or not. MTV and VH1 had been doing this for a while under the guises of "You Hear It First" and other names, but the AOL/Best Buy site trumps that and then some, because you get all-access privileges -- even if it is a limited time offer.

This week's 17 CD lineup: The Killers, Evanescence, Monica, Jet, Beck, Chris Young, Jim Brickman, Robin Thicke, Sleepy Brown, Ray Charles & Count Basie, Pet Shop Boys, Cold War Kids, Lindsey Buckingham, Pillar, Amon Amarth, The DFA Remix (Various Artists), and The Kooks.