Amazon's Online Music Store cares about Linux

I am sure everybody has heard of Amazon's Music Store launched in the U.S. last year. With DRM free music at the same price or at lower price than the iTunes Music Store it seems really interesting to me.

Now the news is: Amazon launched a Linux version of its MP3 Downloader that allows you to buy Albums easily. Binary packages of the application for the major distributions are available here.

Until now you could only buy the music song per song on the Web page. If this store launches in Germany with a respectable amount of music, I will definately be a customer. By the way: Does anybody have more accurate information about the start date than "this year"?