It's not you it's (nearly) free at Amazon

13:16 | Wednesday June 17, 2009

Earlier today albums including Lily Allen’s It’s Not Me, It’s You, Kings Of Leon’s Because Of The Times and Metallica’s Death Magnetic were all available for UK customers to download for just 29p, creating concern that the retailer was drastically upping the price war among retailers.

Initially Amazon did not comment and the prices have since returned to normal.

However, the company has just released a statement saying, “We can confirm that earlier today there was a pricing error on a small number of MP3 albums. This issue has been rectified. Despite our best efforts, with the millions of items available on our website, pricing errors can occur.”

The company has created controversy since it launched its MP3 download store in the UK with a number of aggressive price cutting promotions, including selling hit albums for just £3 and tracks for 29p.