When Google Finance went live Coolfer stopped by to check out some music stocks and play around with the site. In case you didn't hear about it yet, it's Google's newest toy, a source of news and stock quotes akin to Yahoo! Finance. The interactive nature is attractive. Users get a visual on the a stock's performance and scroll through the stock's bar graph. And Google syncs press releases to the chart so you can see the effect of an announcement (those are the little squares with letters in them).

Here's a look at some music-related stocks: Warner Music Group, Loudeye, Trans World and Guitar Center. The window view is set for one year. Doing well: WMG. Not doing well: Trans World.

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