As part of Amazon’s monthly $5 MP3 album deals for September 2013, the MP3 version of Janis Joplin’s Greatest Hits is on sale for only $5.

This hits album, released in 1973, contains 12 classic songs from the late singer Janis Joplin, like “Piece Of My Heart,” “Me And Bobby McGee,” “Ball And Chain,” and “Down On Me,” though every song is worth owning (especially for just five bucks total!)

If you’d like a physical copy of Janis Joplin’s Greatest Hits, the CD is available for only $6.99 and is an “AutoRip,” which means it includes a free MP3 version of the album that you can access immediately.

Browse the main sale page to see all 100 albums on sale for only $5 each in MP3 format through the end of September 2013.

Track Listing

1. Piece Of My Heart (Big Brother & The holding Company-Janis Joplin)
2. Summertime (Big Brother & The Holding Company-Janis Joplin)
3. Try (Just A Little Harder)
4. Cry Baby
5. Me And Bobby McGee
6. Down On Me (Live)
7. Get It While You Can
8. Bye, Bye Baby (Big Brother & The Holding Company-Janis Joplin)
9. Move Over
10. Ball And Chain (Live)
11. Maybe
12. Mercedes Benz

MP3 Purchases: 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.

CD AutoRip Purchases: After you complete a purchase of an AutoRip CD, a free MP3 version of that album will be added to your Amazon Cloud Player library and will be available on your PC/Mac, Kindle Fire, Android phone, iPhone & iPod Touch, and iPad. Albums eligible for this offer are marked on Amazon.com with an AutoRip logo. If you do not yet have a Cloud Player account, you can activate one for free. Available to US customers only.

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