Starbucks offers free iTunes "Pick of the Week"
Apple and Starbucks are at it again, this time with a new Pick of the Week iTunes offer. Basically each week Starbucks will distribute cards good for a free download of a hand-picked song from the iTunes Store. Starting this week the first such song is the Counting Crows' "Washington Square."It's not entirely clear what you have to do to get a card, but presumably it involves a purchase. A new card will be available each Tuesday. Once you get a card you have 60 days to redeem it.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
David Chartier said 3:20PM on 4-15-2008
Loss of ten points for lack of link to the Counting Crows song so we can at least preview it. ;)
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Beanie said 5:09PM on 4-15-2008
oh man.. nothing like a burn from a former coworker.
Tyrannous said 3:27PM on 4-15-2008
no purchase necessary, free at the register.
the song is OK,
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=276357036&id=276357021&s=143441
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Absent One said 3:38PM on 4-15-2008
$tarbucks has been doing this in my area for quite some time now.
I have a dozen of the cards sitting on my desk, I have redeemed maybe 1/2 of them.
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Bobnease said 4:13PM on 4-15-2008
Gotta love free music like this, but I'm still waiting for them to roll out the Starbucks iTunes store for iPhone / iPod touch here in L.A. Wasn't that supposed to come here last month?
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Chad said 5:27PM on 4-15-2008
No cards here...at least not yet.
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Andrew said 7:04PM on 4-15-2008
I walked into Starbucks this morning, and saw the display of cards alongside the rest of the movies and CD's for sale.
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Justin said 7:36PM on 4-15-2008
Hey everyone. I'm surprised I'm the first Starbucks partner to reply to this, but yes - we did start carrying the free download cards today. We received the cards yesterday, and were given instructions to put them on the CD stand. We also started carrying $25 iTunes gift cards and some new digital releases. No purchase necessary for the free downloads, if you can't find them on the CD stand ask a barista where they might be.
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aph3x said 9:11AM on 4-16-2008
Several Starbucks here have been doing this for the last 6-8 months. Old news?
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David Chartier said 4:25PM on 4-16-2008
IIRC, Starbucks was previously doing this *with a purchase.* Plus, those were done on a daily basis; this is one free song—no purchase necessary—each week.
Similar deals, but still different.
maple said 12:32PM on 4-16-2008
US only?
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Slobi said 3:42PM on 4-16-2008
Whatever.
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Mike said 4:05PM on 4-16-2008
Every starbucks should have them by the register or where the cds are. If not, they are screwing up or they haven't got the shipment yet.
Before, starbucks used to give out cards like this with a new song/artist a day. That promo lasted for two months last year around thanksgiving. This is an entirely different promotion, where instead of new songs a day, it's a new song a week. And there are only FOUR different songs being given out for this promo, so it's nothing exciting.
Yes I work at starbucks.
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Knowlton said 12:32AM on 4-19-2008
**For the Starbucks Employees**
Are you asked to dispose or do anything with the previous weeks card
Daniel Hoang said 5:33PM on 4-16-2008
Why not also have a "pick of the week" a la iPhone wifi download?
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