{"id":108,"date":"2003-07-24T22:09:52","date_gmt":"2003-07-25T02:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/07\/caveat_emptor_-_buymusiccom\/"},"modified":"2003-07-24T22:09:52","modified_gmt":"2003-07-25T02:09:52","slug":"caveat_emptor_-_buymusiccom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/24\/caveat_emptor_-_buymusiccom\/","title":{"rendered":"Caveat Emptor – BuyMusic.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re contemplating downloading music from BuyMusic.com<\/a> do yourself a favor and read this horror story first<\/a>. Don’t say that you weren’t warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re contemplating downloading music from BuyMusic.com do yourself a favor and read this horror story first. Don’t say that you weren’t warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":242,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/06\/you_want_fries_with_that_download\/","url_meta":{"origin":108,"position":0},"title":"You Want Fries with that Download?","date":"November 6, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Looks like there's another battle going on over music downloading. 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