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How Not To Sell More Music: Interscope & Best Buy Give Away Something That Was Already Free

Best Buy is offering a free bonus with every purchase of a $9.99 – $13.99 album from an Interscope label act like Black Eyed Peas, 50 Cent, Timbaland and others.. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/12/how-not-to-sell-more-music-interscope-best-buy-give-away-something-that-was-alr

Best Buy is offering a free bonus with every purchase of a $9.99 – $13.99 album from an Interscope label act like Black Eyed Peas, 50 Cent, Timbaland and others. The only problem is that what their offering in exchange for the purchase – a download of Twitter utility Tweetdeck – is already essentially available for free.

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To be fair to Interescope, according to TechCrunch, this is a special custom version of Tweetdeck that comes preloaded with the Twitter feeds of a bunch of Interscope acts that you may or may not care about hearing from. If you want to save the $9.99 and up and spare yourself the pointless tweets, you can download a free no strings attached version of Tweetdeck here or the free Tweetdeck iPhone app here.