Deutsche Grammophon launches giant, DRM-free classical music store

That's pretty sweet. They've always released much of the best classical recording available. I'd probably buy a lot of this if not for Rhapsody type services.

Their selection is truly massive it seems. A search for Mahler alone turned up 72 products. Hell, Mahler conducted by Bernstein turns up 21. Only DG could do that.

Classical is probably the only form of music where one label could have their own site and still have awesome selection.

The site design is pretty good. I mean, it's not great, and nothing a Y C group would build, but if you told me that a major record label created a site for classical music only, I'd expect worse.

Needs work. The web design is clunky and restriction to a single label means the selection is not the greatest. I'll keep them in mind and check them out again down the road, but for now I'm sticking with Amazon.

What I'd find really interesting is a music store that sold new classical music, by David Cope's EMI for example. Generate new scores of classical music (by an algorithm trained on Bach/Vivaldi/Purcell/&c), and synthesize them with something better than MIDI.