Charity Oxfam is launching a music download service to help raise money to fight poverty around the world. The charity is launching the big noise music website on Wednesday and will offer 300,000 soundtracks for download. The service is backed by the OD2 music service and will be available acrossEurope. Oxfam spokesman said artists will see their music help some of the poorest people in the world. Tracks prices range from 75P to 99P and 10 pence from every track sold goes to Oxfam. Music tracks available include Coldplay and George Michael of course many others are available. The Oxfam music site can be found at BigNoiseMusic.com, The new Oxfam service will be up against a lot of competition due to the imminent launch of Napster and Apple iTunes.
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The full story was taken from the BBC . At least this is a start of services which people can feel there money is worthy to spend on, giving to charity while receiving music, though I do feel 10pence to oxfam is pretty low maybe 25p or more would have been better. At least users of the service know that the money they spend isn't going back to the greedy music industry and that its going to help the poor and sick around the world. If only big music corporations started giving more to charity maybe people would actually buy music cd's at the current prices.
Source: BBC
