Sorry, this is kind of a rant.

I just downloaded the new Edguy album, Space Police.

Well, I paid for the album... only to find I couldn't actually get the DL I paid for unless I installed Amazon's damn Cloud player.

We couldn't leave things alone, could we?

I'm sorry, I know it's not really a big deal... but it still kind of irks me.

I would have just used iTunes but I was short a buck and I didn't want to buy an iTunes card to make up the difference.

Side Note:

One of the songs is called "Do Me Like a Caveman"... man, as much as I like Edguy I've really grown to hate their juvenile sense of humor. Yes, I thought all the joke tracks were awesome when I was a teenager... now, twelve years later, I absolutely abhor them and have deleted anything with a sense of "humor" from my playlist.

P.S. "Lavatory Love Machine" was never funny Edguy.

I've purchased a few digital albums from amazon, and I was able to download the mp3 without installing their player. Unless they changed things?

They're definitely pushing the Cloud Player, but you can still download tracks to your PC the old way (which also involved downloadable software, mind you). Launch the browser Cloud player, select your tracks, and click the Download button. A window will appear with big bombastic text about downloading Cloud Player, but there's a tiny line that says something like "no thanks, use the Amazon Downloader." Select that and you're set.

I think they changed things. I downloaded a track from an album like two weeks ago and that option you're referring to was there on the cloud player prompt. It wasn't there this time.

You can still download just mp3s without installing any client, but you can only do so for one track at a time.  Having multiple tracks selected hides the "just download my mp3 instead" option.

Ah, that makes sense. When I DLed a few weeks ago it was a solitary track; this was an entire album.