Bowers & Wilkins have launched the B&W Music Club, in partnership with Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios.
This is based in the USA and UK.Membership for the Music Club costs $39.95 for six months or £33.95/$59.95 for a year. Based on a yearly membership, this means that Music Club members receive 12 albums for less than $5.00 per album. B&W will also offer free trial memberships via its website. Each download will be supplied DRM-free in lossless format, at around half the file size of a CD recording and will include printable color sleeve artwork to enable members to create CD albums from the downloaded files.
Alongside Music Club, B&W’s Society of Sound website offers a diverse community site, created for people with a passion for sound. As well as blogs and feature articles, Society of Sound will host regular podcasts from Martin Ware (Heaven 17, Human League) and video interviews with its Fellows including; Real World’s Peter Gabriel, composer James Newton Howard, jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics and the seminal British designer Kenneth Grange, amongst others.
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