Editor's Picks: Amazon's May Collection of $5 MP3 Downloads

No doubt, your mp3 collection is probably nearing the quantity of particles there are in the universe, but, really, how many did you pay for? While Amazon tries to improve its data and win over more users, they're pushing down their prices to compete with iTunes. Their top 100 songs are being sold at $0.69. Consider a 10 song album for $5, that's $0.50 per track. The best part? Amazon is taking the hit for the sake of data and marketshare. The price decrease isn't affecting the artists' return. This is your chance to give back.

I spent some time trudging through about 1000 of the 1500 albums being sold for $5 and picked out some of my favorites. For fun, I've also listed iTunes' price for the same album. You can check out Amazon's complete list here. Have I missed some great albums? Let us know in the comments.

Genres have become so obscure and great in number that I'm going to divide this list by two properties: light and heavy. Otherwise, each and every one of them would be in their own category. This is partly in hopes that bands will not be ignored on the basis that they have been minutely misdescribed or misinterpreted by some small generic title.

Light

In no particular order.

Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will by Mogwai (iTunes: $7.99)

Go by Jónsi (iTunes: $9.99)

Chez Viking by The Mercury Program (iTunes: $6.93)

Ellipse by Imogen Heap (iTunes: $9.99)

Best Of 00-10 by Ladytron (iTunes: $9.99)

Black Sheep Boy Definitive Edition by Okkervil River (iTunes: $11.99)

Don't Fall In Love With Everyone You See by Okkervil River (iTunes: $8.91)

Unmap by Volcano Choir (iTunes: $8.99)

Tron: Legacy Reconfigured by Various (Remixes of Daft Punk's OST) (iTunes: $9.99)

Planet of Ice by Minus The Bear (iTunes: $9.99)

...Sun, Broken... by Mugstar (iTunes: $9.99)

Heavy

In no particular order.

Messengers by August Burns Red (iTunes: $7.99)

Surtur Rising by Amon Amarth (iTunes: $9.99)

Omnivium by Obscura (iTunes: $8.91)

Invade by Within The Ruins (iTunes: $9.99)

In Sorte Diaboli by Dimmu Borgir (iTunes: $5.99)

Malevolence by I Declare War (iTunes: $8.99)

Hell Chose Me by Carnifex (iTunes: $9.99)