Free chicken (!), batteries, photo processing and coffee with new Costco membership

If you have been tempted to sign up as a Costco member, here are soem good reasons to consider it even more - free stuff! Tech Bargains has the details of an online signup promotion that gets you lots of coupons including a free chicken (rotisserie, not uncooked), free AA batteries (48 of them), two pounds of coffee, and free photo processing. This is an online offer and to get the freebies of course you have to buy a pre-paid one-year Costco membership at the now standard rate of $50 per month.

Free movie rental at Amazon ($4 to spend!)

If you like free, we have free for you! You get $4 worth of free online movie rentals to use at Amazon.com by entering promotional code AVODGIFT - this is good until January 3, so be sure to use it up before then! Some of the latest hot movies are available for rent there for $3 (new Star Trek, Julie and Julia, Harry Potter, and many more.

Or if you are the thrifty type, you can squeeze three four free movie rentals out of the free promo code by selecting four of the 99c movie rentals.

Please note these are online movie rentals, not DVDs. You can watch them on your computer, TIVO, Roku or other compatible device. Broadband is required!!!

Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" full mp3-album for $2 (Tuesday only!)

Music fans, run to Amazon.com - today's mp3 album deal of the day is the epic album by Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon. If you don't already have this album, it is a must have!!!

But that's not all for music fans! The new album from the very talented Mary J. Blige "Stronger with each tear" is going right now for $4 and it includes two bonus songs for Amazon buyers. This is the full mp3 album.

Both are full mp3 albums, both are 100% legal offered by Amazon.com! They have no DRM, so you can play them on your music player, computer, or any other gadget or device that can play mp3 songs.

Don't miss these deals, especially the "Dark Side of the Moon" for $2.

Play vinyl albums for just $50

If you are feeling retro and want to have the touch of vinyl in your musical life, then fear not, you don't have to dig the earth for some dusty vinyl-music player or pay crazy prices for some designer-brand for stuck-up audiophiles :)

Instead, for $50, with free shipping, and with a bonus of $5 of mp3 songs, you can get this Jensen turntable from Amazon.com. Free shipping is included!

There is a total of twenty customer-reviews of this unit, and the overall rating is four out of five stars, which is not bad considering the price.

It also has an AM/FM receiver, and plays the three popular speeds, 33rpm, 45rpm (singles) and 78rpm. Those were the days... :)