iRecycle

If you've got free iTunes songs from Pepsi's big promotion and have no real interest in using them (I'm in the boat, where unless I have a full cd, I have no interest in having an ugly file format on my comp), check out Tune Recycler from the folks at Downhill Battle. Send them your codes and they will use them to repetitively purchase the albums of various independent artists (including Pretty Girls Make Graves). Pepsi only expects 10-20% of all codes to be redeemed by the April 30 deadline, so this is a way to get the codes that you never intended to use active and make some indie artists a little bit happier.

Creative Use of iTunes #2:

I was on iTunes looking for something to spend my songs on (I ended up donating them via TuneRecycler but may end up buying an album or two in the future from Apple) and discovered that the service has high quality, quickly streaming samples for every song in the database... What's more is that the clips seem to be smartly produced, picking highlight moments of the songs. It's exploitable for anyone who would rather buy a physical copy.

Weird iTunes iTem

I signed on looking for tracks from the Guster-covers-Femmes show and was disappointed at the limited number of songs from the event (five altogether, with one being a Guster original)... But I did find the Meow Mix of Guster's Keep It Together, which in the spirit of the Goldfly bonus track replaces all the lyrics for the entire album with meowing.

If the sugar-coated lyrics of Keep It Together weren't your thing but you loved the music, the Meow Mix album is $2 less than the actual album. Save money! Love Guster!