Until today, I hadn't paid for music, minus gifts for others, in years. This was mainly due to the higgh cost of a CD when I only wanted 1 song, and then the advent of DRM for individual songs.
When iTunes launched a couple of years back I was happy that a good way for purchasing music was created, but I thought the cost of $.99 was too high. Alogn with (almost tolerable) DRM, this meant I refrained from using iTunes to buy music even after I bought an iPod.
2007 brough some changes to the music world with the launch of iTunes plus. iTunes offers some music DRM free at a higher bitrate and a cost of $1.29 in most cases. This is a positive step, but everyitme I have looked for a song it hasn't been available this way. Now, I certainly don't look for a lot of new music, so I doubt my few searches are representative of what is available.
The new player in this area is Amazon. Amazon MP3 has a simple interface and seems to have more label support from the music industry. I heard this is a pushback agains Apple's dominance with iTines from the labels, but it is still good for consumers to have some competition. I just purchased 2 tracks from them and found it very easy to use. It even added them to my iTunes library for me.
So I am now going to start paying for music now that there are decent options. I still think $0.99 per song is a bit high, but I can deal with it. As we all now, music was perfected by Huey Lewis, so there isn't much new worth getting.
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