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		pg on Feb 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can a musician sell their music online? Believe it or not, the site looks that way on purpose. It's supposed to be coolly bleak-looking. I don't love it either, but its not an accident.

unalone on Feb 27, 2009 [–]

"Bleak-looking"? For a site that wants to sell people things? I'm curious what the strategy behind that visual concept was - doesn't it fly in the face of what most sales sites are supposed to achieve?

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