The physical single may be dead to all but the most die-hard record consumers, but that hasn't stopped a secondary singles market of sorts from popping up in the digital-music world:
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Since people seem to be pretty into the whole "music should be free" concept these days, the UK band The Crimea's experiment, in which it's planning on giving away copies of its album in the hopes that they'll make up the revenue on non-music items, is garnering a not-insignificant amount of ink today. From 
The Arctic Monkeys' Favourite Worst Nightmare is making history on the charts across the pond, and it's currently at No. 3 on the US edition of iTunes and No. 6 on Amazon. But will US audiences' recent warming-up to Brit artists like Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen translate to a big first-week tally for the NME darlings?
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