In case you missed it, iTunes lowered it's Plus price according to an Apple email I received:
We've lowered the price for iTunes Plus songs to 99¢ and expanded our selection to more than two million songs, including new albums from Iron & Wine, Band of Horses, Sharon Jones, José González, and more. With high-quality 256-Kbps AAC encoding and no DRM (digital rights management), the iTunes Plus catalog is the largest DRM-free catalog in the world. And that means you can play iTunes Plus music on any iPod or other digital music player and an unlimited number of computers.
