I have no idea why, but Amazon is offering Phillip Glass' THE THIN BLUE LINE soundtrack as a free MP3 download.

It's here.

I just thought I would add a little warning: Don't click the "Buy Mp3 album with 1-click" button unless you want to get charged $19. This seems a little bit deceptive considering that Amazon regularly terms free downloads as "purchases." In any case, having a price of $18.99 for the album and "Free" as the price of individual tracks seems like a rather confusing mixed message. To get this for free, you have to work for it a little bit by individually downloading the tracks, which is kind of pointless and annoying.

I sent an email to complain about this, and, thankfully, I just go a response saying that I'll get a refund.

Thanks for the warning--I didn't download this yet.

Off topic, but I also noticed that one Talking Heads album is mostly free ("More Songs About Buildings and Food," reissue version with bonus tracks, except for three or four songs) and a Lindsey Buckingham album, too. Odd.

Amazon's trying to compete with Itunes and giving away free mp3s is a good way to get people to download their mp3 software. You can still use your browser of course, but the idea's to get as many of amazon's "downloaders" out there as possible. At least that's what a friend who seems to know these things told me.

Also, if this version of the THIN BLUE LINE is the same as the CD, it features the dialog from the movie over Glass's music. Glass's album GLASSWORKS uses themes similar to the film's without the talking.

There's a THIN BLUE LINE CD without any dialogue, too (although it's the one with the dialogue in the OP's link).

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