Radiohead’s new album, In Rainbows, is available for download today from their album website, InRainbows.com. In Rainbows is being released for the price of… whatever you want to pay. When buying the album online, you can purchase it for anywhere between $1 and $100, whatever you think its worth. Damn cool if you ask us! Head on over to InRainbows.com to download your copy.

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There are audiophile audio monitors and there are iPod docks– then there is Scandyna’s take on both– the Micropod SE speakers with iPod dock. These kevlar-laced tripod audio monitors provide fresh, 15-watt per speaker clarity for your workstation. The included iPod dock comes with a wireless IR remote for room-wide control of your iPod’s pristine, Scandyna-powered playback.

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This Behringer iAxe is one part stratocaster, one part iPod– plug this baby direct to your computer via USB, and you’re making records. This maple-neck, solid gloss body axe also includes a 10-watt amp which is perfect for practice (yet understandably light for live shows). The best part- where 10 years ago you would have easily spent $1,000+ for this technology, you can now get it done with this Behringer package for under two-hundred.

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Rich bass, excellent highs and mids, and a very handy compact design make the Tivoli MusicSystem stereo our office Crave of the Week. This dark walnut desktop-sized system is iPod-ready, and has a front-loading, MP3-compatible CD player, plus AM/FM, two alarms, and a platinum card-sized remote control. This is also an excellent bedside or home office music system custom-made for those who want small, simple, clutter-free design combined with high quality audio output.

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The Slim Devices Squeezebox music player is the last word in getting music from the net to your home stereo system. Plug Squeezebox into your stereo with a standard RCA cable, download Squeezebox software to your computer, then add Squeezebox to your wireless network. Then you are ready to play, wirelessly. Enjoying your mp3 library on those big home stereo speakers is only one part of what makes this so cool. Think of the hundreds of hours of net radio you can access, with the full benefits of your surround sound, pumped up bass and midrange . . .you get the idea. That mp3-only mash-up megamix you downloaded last week? Now you can hear it big as life, all over the house.

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The problem with working out with most headphones (like those notorious iPod earbuds) is that they are too flimsy, and pop right out of your ears at just the wrong moment, like when you’re looking both ways before crossing the road. Sennheiser’s MX75 headphones are built especially for working out, with rubber stoppers made to keep the headphones securely in your ear where they belong. There’s also a great “twist-to-fit” feature, and a heavy duty cord that can take the pounding your last set of phones couldn’t.

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Heard about this one yet? A company called ShrinkMyTunes is using NASA audio technology (”content sensitive heuristic optimization algorithms”) to reduce the size of .mp3s. ShrinkMyTunes.com offers a subscriber service to shrink your iTunes library while maintaining audio fidelity. The official site offers before-and-after song samples so you can hear the results of the shrinkage before you buy. Your files can be “reduced up to 4X while maintaining great quality.”

Looks like ShrinkMyTunes is about to reveal the truth; all this time we’ve been telling people that putting a fully loaded iPod Nano in a bucket of water will make the songs shrink.

( Just chalk that last line up to having watched Superbad too many times this month.)

Quadruple the number of songs on your iPod for $39.99.

It’s like TIVO for the radio. This AM/FM/Shortwave radio has a removable .mp3 recorder that lets you record any broadcast signal it can pick up. It’s fully programmable, complete with a timer. With this, you can record your fifteen minutes of fame on the local talk radio show, the secret word for those goofy morning radio show contests, or that anything else you want to catch, but ususally wind up missing. It’s also great for making bizarre mash-up mp3 party mixes using random radio samples from This American Life and BBC World News. We strongly recommend using this on any sweet college radio stations near you playing those great songs you can never identify. Now you’ve got ‘em in mp3 format.

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Check this sweet, Mp3-playin’ stainless steel watch that can’t make up its mind whether it’s analog or digital! It holds a gig’s worth of MP3s and has a headphone jack for powerful 3D sound. Headphones included! There is a handy USB port for downloading the tunes from Mac or Windows computers, scrolling menus in the LCD panel, and the old-school clock-face make this the coolest technological contradiction since the wooden computer.

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