From: Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm not quite to the point of giving up on used CDs... I tend to like
whole albums, not single songs. (Thus, thematically consistent albums
tend to be my favorites...)
Most sites, including allofmp3 and itunes allow you to dl whole albums.
> Two questions:
>
> 1. My CD SW rips to .wav's. Can I buy songs in a format (MP3?) that can
> be burned to a CD and does it have to be a .wav?
[answered in full elsethread]
> 2. Where do you guys/gals go on line to buy music?
Haven't yet, but it would probably be iTunes, as they were one of the
first to have a reasonable business model. The problem with $1/album
is that I'd seriously doubt that ANY of they money makes it back to the
original artist.
I also like buying music directly from the artist. Generally, it's
cheap, and I have some assurance that they at least *see* the money...
My problem with iTunes is 3 fold.
1)DRMed up the wazoo. I refuse to pay for DRMed files
2)Still too expensive. You can't sample new artists for a buck a song, an
album is still $10.
3)For every penny the artist gets, the label still gets 65 or 70.
Literally. I refuse to support those greedy parasites.
What I'd love to see is something like Napster/Rhapsody/Yahoo Music with no
DRM on the files- just a flat monthly fee to download whatever I want, and
I keep it (none of this renting bullshit). I'd happily pay as much as I do
for cable tv for such a service.
Gabe
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