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Amazon, Walmart also sell songs near $1.29
Electronista | The Macintosh News Network — [image] Amazon MP3 and Walmart weren't immune to pressure for variable song pricing and today started quietly charging higher prices for popular songs. In particular, about 10 of the top 100 songs on Amazon now meet the same $1.29 prices as similar tracks on iTunes, including recent Beyonce, Britney Spears and The Fray songs. Walmart's store, in turn, is now charging ...

Amazon and Wal-Mart Follow iTunes into Variable Pricing [MP3s]
Lifehacker — ... , both Amazon and Wal-Mart's digital stores also introduced "variable pricing." Amazon didn't seem to boost as many songs to $1.29, while Wal-Mart has the lowest bottom-end price. The Electronista blog noted that a new $1.29 price, the same top-level cost at iTunes, was applied to ten of Amazon.com's top 100 songs , but a reduced $0.79 price was also applied more liberally to older tracks than over at iTunes. Wal-Mart, for its part, caps the top price at $1.24, and sells its bargain bin tracks at $0.64. Of course, one could argue that the DRM-free nature of all these stores is ...