This month, the Dire Straits album Best Of – Private Investigations is on sale for only $5 in MP3 format.

This 2005 greatest hits package assembles the best of the Newcastle, UK group’s work, including selections from their blockbuster album Brothers in Arms, as well as lead singer (and one of Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time) Mark Knopfler‘s terrific solo work, like his evocative “Going Home (Theme from Local Hero)”, and an original track, “All The Roadrunning,” a duet with Emmylou Harris. If you like your British rock a little countrified, this deal is just for you.

Browse all 1,000 albums on sale this month for only $5 each, as well as several albums on sale this week for only $2.99 each.

Track listing

1. Telegraph Road
2. Sultans of Swing
3. Love Over Gold
4. Romeo and Juliet
5. Tunnel of Love
6. Skateaway
7. Private Investigations
8. So Far Away
9. Money for Nothing
10. Walk of Life
11. Your Latest Trick
12. Calling Elvis
13. On Every Street
14. Going Home (Theme from Local Hero)
15. The Long Road (Theme from Cal)
16. Why Aye Man
17. Sailing to Philadelphia
18. What It Is
19. The Trawlerman’s Song
20. Boom, Like That
21. Brothers in Arms
22. All the Roadrunning

Note – when you purchase MP3s through Amazon, it stores your purchases to Amazon’s Cloud Drive; from there you can stream the music right from their online player. Also, if you have a Kindle Fire, your MP3 purchases will automatically be available for you to stream on your device. All your purchases are backed up and available for you to download at any time. You can download the files to your computer to load to an MP3 device and to your iTunes account if you have one. If you’d like to gift these MP3 purchases, you can – just click the “Give album or song as gift” button on the right on the product page. From there you enter the recipient’s email address and then select either specific songs to gift or the entire album.