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Well after a lot of humming and hawing over this, I’ve made the decision to start selling my music, which means that I won’t be offering downloads of any new songs. From here on out, you will be able to use the Opus player on the left hand side of this page to listen to my music while you have this window open, but to download copies of the songs, you will have to purchase them from ProjectOpus.com.

Downloads are $1.00 each, of which I get 50 cents. You get an MP3 download; not a DRM-riddled other format that you have to worry about licensing with. They are also a Canadian company, so you don’t have to worry about currency conversion nor do you have to worry about supporting an American company if you’re against that. They also offer their artists the best compensation per download (artists who sell through iTunes, for example, usually see about 6-10 cents of the 99 that Apple charges per download).

To purchase my music, please go to: http://www.projectopus.com/justinsmith/music/ and select the song you want to purchase, and then click the “Get Hi-Fi Version” link.

I am also open to other suggestions, but as I’m starting to give more and more thought to pursuing a professional career in music, I’d like to show that I can be professional, even if that means charging people to hear my music.

Well I finally buckled down and recorded my cover of Joshua Radin’s Everything’ll Be Alright (Will’s Lullabye). It took me all of a couple hours recording the different guitar parts, vocals, and then another hour or so of tweaking effects/usual post-production stuff. Anyways, check it out and tell me what you think:

Justin Smith – Everything’ll Be Alright

I spent the last few days, re-recording and re-mixing a track I recorded in May. You may know it: it’s called You’re Beautiful and it was originally done by James Blunt. After listening to it in my car and hearing every teeny little problem with it, I decided to re-record the vocals, as well as actually do a bit of post-processing on it to make it sound a little more professional.

Please let me know what you think: Justin Smith – You’re Beautiful