Walmart to shutter its online music store, somewhere Steve Jobs is smiling

It seems like only yesterday that Walmart was doing its best to beat Apple at the digital music game by delivering us DRM-free digital music . Alas, the inexorable might of iTunes has, at last, become too much to bear. According to Digital Music News , Wally World’s MP3 store will shut its digital doors forever on August 28th. Chin up, Walmart, we won’t be coming to you for the new Kanye jam (not that we ever would), but we’ll still head on down when we’re in need of damn near anything else. Walmart to shutter its online music store, somewhere Steve Jobs is smiling originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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