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Culture Club's new album, Life, is released today. I didn't pre-order it, because the last time I pre-ordered one of their albums, it ended up being delayed and delayed and finally shelved. That was the "Tribes" album, of which this Life album is the new reincarnation.
I hadn't been planning to order it tonight after midnight, but Amazon was showing it as available, so I thought, why not do it right now? I can be quick.
So I added it to my MP3 cart, as well as a few other songs I'd been thinking about getting... which of course took another hour.
When I finally went to check out, I kept getting an error message. When I clicked the Continue button like the error message told me to do, I got a "page not found".
So then I had a chat with a support person, who suggested I try buying a single song. That worked. Then I bought the Life album on its own. That worked. Then I tried the remaining items in my MP3 cart, all together. That worked too.
Ok so great, I finally got my items purchased, but after 2am.
Then I go to download them, and whaddaya know, the Life album isn't even available for download yet!!! Even though the album page made it look like it was available. Only 3 songs are downloadable so far. I assume the rest will be available later today somewhen.
Even more confusing, my digital orders page lists those 3 songs separately, along with a $3.87 charge for them. At first I thought Amazon messed up my orders, and was overcharging me by $3.87. But then I realized they were charging me $5.62 for the rest of the album, rather than $9.49 which is the total. So it's correct after all.
Sheesh. Instead of all that hassle, I could've been listening to the songs on YouTube.
By the way, this is one of the songs I've already listened to, which I like quite a bit:
Video title: Boy George & Culture Club - God & Love (Edit)
Posted by: Culture Club
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7qSGnA1Yxs
I hadn't been planning to order it tonight after midnight, but Amazon was showing it as available, so I thought, why not do it right now? I can be quick.
So I added it to my MP3 cart, as well as a few other songs I'd been thinking about getting... which of course took another hour.
When I finally went to check out, I kept getting an error message. When I clicked the Continue button like the error message told me to do, I got a "page not found".
So then I had a chat with a support person, who suggested I try buying a single song. That worked. Then I bought the Life album on its own. That worked. Then I tried the remaining items in my MP3 cart, all together. That worked too.
Ok so great, I finally got my items purchased, but after 2am.
Then I go to download them, and whaddaya know, the Life album isn't even available for download yet!!! Even though the album page made it look like it was available. Only 3 songs are downloadable so far. I assume the rest will be available later today somewhen.
Even more confusing, my digital orders page lists those 3 songs separately, along with a $3.87 charge for them. At first I thought Amazon messed up my orders, and was overcharging me by $3.87. But then I realized they were charging me $5.62 for the rest of the album, rather than $9.49 which is the total. So it's correct after all.
Sheesh. Instead of all that hassle, I could've been listening to the songs on YouTube.
By the way, this is one of the songs I've already listened to, which I like quite a bit:
Video title: Boy George & Culture Club - God & Love (Edit)
Posted by: Culture Club
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7qSGnA1Yxs