Last-minute Xmas gift idea: personalized mp3 ‘mix tape’, $10ish

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Last-minute Xmas gift idea: personalized mp3 ‘mix tape’, $10ish

By Sara The Bargain Queen 19 December 2007 No Comment

Once upon a time, music was encoded on pieces of plastic and shipped to stores all over the world, giving each song a carbon footprint worthy of a Sasquatch.

Give your love a completely personal (and eco-friendly) gift this Christmas, by making them an mp3 ‘mix tape’.

We like AmazonMP3 because many of their 1.8 million tracks cost just 89c, and they’re all DRM-free so you can give them as a gift in any format you want. You might:

Burn to CD-R, wrap it up and put it under the tree.
Copy to a USB flash drive ($8.48), wrap and tree.
Email them — perfect for anyone so geeky they check email before opening presents.

A very stylish addition to their sonic pleasure would be this diamond-adorned earpiece at Fashion Tribes. Set with 204 flawless diamonds, the iDiamond Ear is an ultra-luxe version of earbuds — yes, they actually work!

PS: I hear you can download songs for free using a P2P client like BitTorrent, but that would be naughty, so I would never do it and neither should you ;)