Here’s a tip to maximise how much of your money goes to the artist.
When you buy an ethical download, we have to deduct VAT and the cost of the transaction. 70% of what’s left goes to the musician(s) whose song you liked. We don’t take any deductions of any kind to cover our costs. We’re not a record label 
But if you only ever buy one track at a time, the transaction cost is proportionately higher. If you bought one song one day, and another the next, it would be more expensive than buying two songs in one transaction. And so on. The sweet spot starts to come when you buy eight songs in one transaction. Happily, amazingtunes.com remembers what you put in the cart, so you can go away and come back again, until you get past 8 songs. The person I love most so far bought 25 songs in one sitting. That’s even better.
That’s why, at the moment, I have four songs sitting in my cart. When I get past eight, I’ll make the payment and do the download. (And yes – I do pay for them myself, by the way!). So more of my cash will go to the deserving musicians who wrote and recorded the songs, less to Visa or Mastercard or some bank. I really hope you’ll consider doing the same.
ps coming soon – mobile phone payments, Paypal, and other things designed to make it easier and simpler to support artists with an ethical download.
