One word: Awesome!

A description as taken from MacRumors:

Did you know that if you’ve purchased one or more songs from an eligible album, you may now be able to buy the rest of the album at a reduced price? You have up to six months after first downloading a song from an eligible album to purchase the remainder of the album.

To expound upon, this is really cool. I fall into this category all too often. I buy the latest and hottest singles as soon as they’re on iTunes after hearing them on the radio. Then a few months later, I sometimes find myself purchasing the album. That isn’t my general case, I’ve only purchased around 6 albums or so from iTunes. But still, it counts. I wish I had know about this earlier in the week because I had purchased 4 songs from Three Days Grace’s first album a few months back. This week I decided to buy the rest of the songs. It was basically the same price to just buy the whole album, and I figured I was supporting my band, so I did that anyway. So I really paid 1.99 for 4 of those songs. And I’ve done that before.

The service works really well actually. Once in the iTunes Store, click the “Complete My Album” link. From there you are shown all the albums you have purchased at least one song from. I have 108 albums listed, shockingly enough. Now I know where my money goes! Of those albums, however, the pricing is listed beside that. Most albums I just bought one song from, and the pricing is 9.00 (9.99 for album – .99 one song). Others I purchased more from and the pricing is lower, like 6.00. I’m not sure if age plays a part in the pricing right now or not either.

Hurry if you believe you’ll want to do this, as right now this offer applies to all the songs you’ve every purchased (some were like 2 years ago or more for me). This lasts until late June, when after that, the offer only applies to songs you’ve purchased in the last 6 months.