My apologies to people on this thread. This is about the Naxos free music offer. I accidentally posted it (yesterday?) on the Media Deals thread, instead of this one. Maybe most of you follow the Audiobooks thread, too, and so saw this; but for those of you who don't/didn't, I'm posting it on the correct thread now.
Here's more info about Naxos that I feel that you all would like to know about. Before giving that information, however, let me complain about something: things are overly complicated and not very straightforward when dealing pre-sale, at least, with Naxos, IMHO. It's downright obnaxos (no, I didn't misspell, that's a pun).
I found out that there are more freebies available from Naxos besides the plum albums that they give away each month. They have a department or subsidiary called Naxos Direct, which offers "weekly free MP3 downloads" of classical music, as well as some trifles and trinkets, if you sign up for their newsletter (more information is here: http://www.naxos.com/aboutus.asp?pag...gital-services).
Really, I should have said "newsletters" in the previous paragraph. Because they offer several, and I don't know which one(s) that you have to get in order to get the MP3 freebies each month. So, I signed up for all of them to cover all of the bases. Here's one way to sign up for them: go to www.naxosdirect.com. Click on the button on the righthand side that says, "join our mailing list." Follow the prompts. I'm assuming that they will let us know, by email each week, when a new MP3 is ready to download.