"This sounds peachy keen, but I was trepidacious because some of it sounds familiar. The most notorious "build your own storefront" music store was BurnLounge, which went offline in June after drawing negative attention from the FTC during the previous year for allegedly running a pyramid-type scheme that defrauded storefront owners. Good riddance; BurnLounge storefront owners used to drive me nuts, showing up to online music hangouts urging me to shop at their stores."
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