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One More Thin Gypsy Thief

Here's a question for the audio-technophiles out there. I'd like a copy of Jennifer Warnes' cover of Cohen's Famous Blue Raincoat. Call it a curiousity, or completeness for completeness' sake: I've got most of the other covers. The trouble is, I don't want to pay Amazon.com $25 for the privilege. Besides, while I'm curious about the one track, I'm not a big fan of Warnes: I don't need the other eight, particularly since I was never fond of Bird on a Wire.

So I've been to ITunes, and I've wandered over to MusicMatch's store, and gotten no joy: the first is blind to the whole album, the second teasingly lists it, but doesn't make it available for download. Maybe Sony's new Connect service has it, but I don't want to download a third piece of music download software just for the chance to find out.

Is there some service out there that lets me scan a database of who has which tracks, in order to determine which service I should purchase from? I mean, I know I can get the thing illegally without much fuss, but presuming I'd like to actually pay someone for the single track, is there an easy way to do it?


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Download the track (illegaly), then mail a dollar bill to Ms. Warnes. Enclose a note telling her what you've done, and request that she pass the money along to whomever she feels deserves it. If she thinks Cohen deserves a share, and her record label, let her deal with them. You can't go wrong shifting the resposibility up the heirarchy. Except that it's still illegal. But its hard to say its unethical.
Download it illegaly. Full stop.

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