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.

The MP3 album deal of the day over at Amazon today is Janis Joplin’s Greatest Hits for only $3.99.

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 four bucks total!)

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

A fond, heartfelt birthday greeting goes out to the late Janis Joplin, who would have been 70 years old today. Joplin, who died in that unfortunate by-product of heroin and other bad news libations binging in 1970, still remains one of the most, if not THE most prominently influential female artist in all of rock and roll history. She didn’t just influence scores of women rock and roll singers who followed her; her influence split the genders, transcended them, and she was equally revered and innovative to the soulful, dulcet crooning of front men like Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant, Blind Melon’s Shannon Hoon, and Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell.

She belongs to a very scant group of musicians who put their heart and soul out there for the world to absorb and empathize and groove with. Joplin was one of the few who really sang like she felt; there was a tortured kind of gruffness in her bluesy vocal stance that made her that rare one-of-a-kind, once in a zeitgeist kind of figure, who died as she lived, whose recklessness and feckful approach to being a true hippie and a true artist of the blues and pained devil scorned woman created a musical figure of the highest order. In short, the influence of Janis Joplin still remains a hovering force in any band, woman or man, musician or solo artist, who sings in a manner in which they expose every hidden facet of their true being.

Amazon is currently offering over 300 Classic Rock songs in MP3 for just $0.69 each right now: 300 Classic Rock Songs For $0.69 Each.

Click the link above and browse the list of tunes, which contains tracks from artists like Aerosmith, Kansas, Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath, Dio, Heart, Billy Joel, Bad Company, Janis Joplin, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, Alice Cooper, Yes, Cream, The Doors, Van Halen, and many more!

MP3 songs usually sell for $.99 to $1.29 each, so 69 cents is a great deal! No word on when the sale ends, so grab the songs you want now at the discounted price. Also, all this month, Amazon is offering up 2,000 albums for $5 each in MP3 format, so be sure to check out that hefty selection, too.

As part of Amazon’s monthly $5 MP3 album deal for April 2012, Janis Joplin’s Greatest Hits is on sale for only $5.

One of American music’s most tragic, flawed singers, Janis Joplin came out of the Billie Holiday/Big Mama Thornton school of hard knocks in the late 1960s to carve her own niche as one of the most influential singers of all time. First doing her musical turns with Big Brother and the Holding Company and then on her own with some stellar backing bands and finally stripped down, Joplin took every drop of the 1960s excess and devoured it for all it was worth.