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+Downloadpunk is a newish music store that specializes in, natch, punk music. The selection is excellent including just about everything from the seminal punk label Discord Records.

The distribution of punk music has always made it an easy candidate for online dissemination since word of mouth has always fueled the scenes. Downloadpunk seems to have recognized this and skipped many of the social features other music sites are touting. Downloadpunk seems to operate on the premise that what punk fans want is an online record store, not an online community and download punk is a darn fine store.

All songs are in 192 bit encoding which should be fine for most punk bands. Users can choose between mp3 and WMA formats. When you sign up you have the option to chose a charity, and Downloadpunk donates 1% of sales to the charities listed on the site. Song prices range from $.79, to $.99. You can also download full albums which range in price from $7.99 to $9.99. Customers can preview a thirty second sample of each song before purchasing.

You can search Downloadpunk by Artist, Album Title, Record Label or Song Title or you can browse by filtering through the various Punk sub-genres. Unfortunately there's no tag-based searching and not much in the way of recommendations, but they again if you're part of the punk scene perhaps you don't need online recommendations. 

And the best part? There's no craptastic DRM. Wouldn't be very punk if there was would it?

[1]: http://www.downloadpunk.com "downloadpunk.com"
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