As part of Amazon’s monthly $5 MP3 album deals for August 2012, Muse‘s Showbiz is on sale for only $5.

Matthew Bellamy’s emotive, operatic crooning and prodigious chops, as well as those of Christopher Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard, combined with an energetic and diverse musicality that crisscrosses many genres are what make listening to Muse a near-religious experience. Every song is an epic explosion of ecstasy. Their sound is almost too big to capture in a single paragraph so head on over to Amazon check out them out. Showbiz was the first of Muse’s six studio albums, followed by Origin of Symmetry, Absolution, Black Holes and Revelations, and The Resistance . Amazingly, Muse’s first five albums are available in MP3 format for only $5 each this month so you won’t have to decide which one is awesome-er. Buy “˜em all, light a torch, and belt it out loud. Really, really loud.

Browse all 1,000 albums on sale this month for only $5 each, as well as several albums on sale this week for only $2.99 each.

Showbiz Track Listing

1. Sunburn
2. Muscle Museum
3. Fillip
4. Falling Down
5. Cave
6. Showbiz
7. Unintended
8. Uno
9. Sober
10. Escape
11. Overdue
12. Hate This and I’ll Love You
13. Spiral Static

Note – when you purchase MP3s through Amazon, it stores your purchases to Amazon’s Cloud Drive; from there you can stream the music right from their online player. Also, if you have a Kindle Fire, your MP3 purchases will automatically be available for you to stream on your device. All your purchases are backed up and available for you to download at any time. You can download the files to your computer to load to an MP3 device and to your iTunes account if you have one. If you’d like to gift these MP3 purchases, you can – just click the “Give album or song as gift” button on the right on the product page. From there you enter the recipient’s email address and then select either specific songs to gift or the entire album.