Apple Blocks PyMusique

As people have said above, emusic.com and bleep.com are highly recommended. emusic has a much larger selection and is all indie label. Where else can you buy the entire Pixies collection for 25 cents a song. And you get 50 free downloads to start out. I don't really buy all that much from ITMS anymore.

Yeah, bleep.com. It's where it's at. The latest Bjork album's on there, for example. As is Prefuse73. As is Aphex Twin. Plenty plenty plenty.

By "good" do you mean "extremely well-marketed"? Or do you mean, y'know, "good"? There's a lot of good music on Mperia.com, the site for which I am creative lead. There's a lot of bad music too, but I'm guessing the ratio is probably not much higher than on iTMS -- I mean, did you hear that Grammys all-star cover of "Across The Universe" they've been pimping up in Steve's hizzy? My Lord, I think Bono alone opened a seal or two in Heaven with that one. And we're not involved with the RIAA, and we hate DRM. And you can buy CDBaby tracks. Oh, and the artist keeps a lot more than with any other site -- 70% for independent artists and 35 cents per track for CDBaby artists. So you're supporting the artist themselves. And the site is designed on a Mac. Just a thought. :-)

I have to say, the defenders of DRM are a little too sanctimonious and far too narrow-minded. I used to be fine with DRM, until I sent my 15" PB back to Apple to have its screen fixed (spots). As per Apple's instructions, I deauthorized my computer before sending in the machine. 1 week later, I received my machine with its new screen and attempted to reauthorize my computer. iTunes crashed, again, and again, and again. Every attempt to authorize a song would cause the machine to crash. I told Apple and they cleared my account of all authorization records(?). No more crashes... on half of my drm'ed songs. The other half still could not be played. This would not have happened if Apple had sold me songs without DRM. I wasn't trying to distribute the music nor have multiple copies, I merely wanted to PLAY MY PURCHASED MUSIC. The problem was never resolved. Over 100 songs would not play. I realize there is probably a simply solution to this problem (corrupt itunes lib?), but I gave up. I went to another OS X machine, authorized it, downloaded jhymn, and solved the problem.

Two of my favourite UK record labels (Warp and Distinct'ive) both offer DRM-free MP3s for purchase. Warp's offering also carries albums and tracks from a number of other smaller labels. I still prefer to buy whole albums on CD, but for singles and tracks that have had limited availability they've both been fantastic. http://www.bleep.com http://www.distinctiverecords.com/

If you use that allofmp3 place, you might as well just steal the mp3's from the p2p networks. The license may be all well and valid in Russia, but good luck getting any American court to recognize it. And before anyone jumps on me with some stupid legalese, do you really think that the RIAA won't find a way to invalidate the license in the USA? On a positive note, http://www.mp3tunes.com/ doesn't contain DRM music and is legal (to my knowledge), but is still associated with the RIAA.

forgot to mention that wif you're worried about CC security, they accept paypal.

www.allofmp3.com dirt cheap(russian loophole), $5 for 250MB, and u choose the bitrate and encoder.

give russians my credit card number?? no friggin way!

give russians my credit card number?? no friggin way!