Free iTunes Music from Starbucks

Although times are tough financially, my family still makes our weekly trip to Starbucks. On our most recent venture, I discovered that Starbucks offers free iTunes. Being the sceptic I am, I thought I would research further and try a download for myself.

The program started out at Starbucks as a temporary one. It origianlly began as an attempt to promote the new partnership with Apple and its wi-fi music store. Starbucks was slated in October of 2007 to hand out 50 million Itunes between October 2nd, and November 7th, 2007. The program was so popular it ran until early 2008, when Starbucks extended the offer indefinately. They continued the program on April 15, 2008, announcing what they called their "Pick of the Week. " program. The offer for free Itunes is at all of Starbukcs stores in the United States. ( http://mashable.com/2007/09/24/itunes-starbucks/ ) (http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/pressdesc.asp?id=857)

Every week , a new Itunes option is posted on a wallet card. The previous week's song is also availible. Monday morning of every week, a new Itunes complementary download card is offered. The card comes complete with the songs title, the singer or groups nam e, the album it comes from , and on the back of the card is the unique download code. I have downloaded many of the Itunes over the past few months, and I downloaded the latest Itunes free offer, and it worked like a charm. When going to the Itunes site, there is a section to list any code you might have. I am now the proud owner of a Cat Stevens or Yusuf Islam song, as he is now called.

There of course is a catch to the download. You don't have a choice. YOu downlaod their "Pick of the Week." I had been collecting the cards for awhile to see what type of singers were availbile, and althought this is the first week I have actually tried it, i have noticed the type of artists. They are in line with the type of music you would expect to hear at a coffee shop like Starbukcs. They run the gammut from little known groups such as The Airborne Toxic Event, Gomez, and The Decemberists to known artists such as the Dave Matthews Band, Cat Stevens, and Dianne Krall. The download code is good for approxiametly 90 days, if you want to collect them and download all at the same time. But I would not advise this. The music genre tends to be either Jazz, Indie , or Adult alternative music . But as I grow older, I am preferring these genres, more and more

Visit your local STarbucks. Their prices have decreased recently to match the difficult times we are in. You can enjoy your coffee, the autmospehre and get a free Itune Pick of the Week. After a while, you'll have a collection of music like I do. AFter all, we all could use a bit of free things these days. Enjoyr your Starbucks Pick of the Week Itune song.