Best site to download music legally?

I'm new to the cd burning scene. Need some help. Thanks!

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the Apple iTunes store is great. 99 cents per song, and a whole lot of alubms that break down to less than 99 cents per song.

Do you have to have a Mac to use it?

Great interface, fun to shop at. Download itunes at apple.com

This just popped up on The Register (an UK-based IT news site) today. It turns out Apple's not making any profit off of iTunes; almost all of your 99 cents goes straight into the RIAA's piggy bank.

www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33850.html

if it's free and it's out there, d/l it. At least that's what I say. I worry not of those RIAA bastards going onto my computer. Besides, they wouldn't find anything anyways. :D

I'd rather pay and have a clean conscience. :)

I'm not selling the music that I obtain by "other means." I'm just listening to it for my own pleasure. Besides, it's no different than putting a tape into the tape player and recording the song off the radio. Another thing, I hate big businesses...I don't need to give more of my money to those bastards. They have enough of it already.

The RIAA gets a juicy royalty for every blank CD-R/RW or DVD-R/RW disc that gets sold. Even if you don't use the discs for audio storage, you're paying them. This makes them thieves for every disc that's not used for music. Other companies (like Microsoft) have tried a similar tactic and got caught, so why is the RIAA getting away with it?

You never hear any artists' tracks except those they want you to hear on the radio. When you spend $17-20 for that CD, it's for ONE song you like and ~10 songs which may or may not be any good. (also consider that a movie DVD is $17-$24 and contains much more. How come CDs are so expensive and disproportionally so? Movies cost more, so I can respect the MPAA to an extent, they are almost fair in their pricing.)

Try to return a disc you don't like because the music sucks? Nope. You opened it, therefore you are automatically a thief who copied all the music onto a cassette or whatever. No returns are allowed. (this makes THEM the thieves as you're forced to keep something you do not want. Just as the medicine industry gets free money every time you take a medication that doesn't cure the problem or fix the symptom.)

They are trying to incorporate copy protection and have been doing so to certain titles over the last year or so WITHOUT INFORMING THE PUBLIC. Not all copy protected CDs will work in CD players. This makes them useless. Try to return it? Nope, you opened it. Once again, they get money they did not deserve. THIEVES! ... And the discs are protected in the name of preventing piracy but the real goal is to force consumers to buy a new disc should the old one get ruined or scratched. (do the RIAA folk have children? If so, does it matter when a dollar is involved?)

Then consider the RIAA is ONLY going to release music which THEY think is profitable. Forget consumer choice. We have to hope and beg that they release what we want. I love kazaa because music I want can be downloaded and I've never found it in stores. Which is a shame as I'd buy the CD because CD quality is cleaner and contains complete, unaltered tracks. Downloading music also contains a risk of viruses, incomplete songs, songs with the wrong file/titlename, etc.

The RIAA blames piracy for the drop in sales when, duh, it's the whole economy that's gone down. Spin and politics aimed for bettering themselves.

Sorry, but the RIAA has always been less than savory. They already owe us, most notably for now irrational no-returns policies and the fact they are getting money for recordable discs when plenty of people don't use every disc for mere audio disc creation.

On the plus side, I don't listen or care about "new" material. It's all rubbish. Since the obscure stuff is not "economically viable", they're not losing a penny because of me. They can go sue themselves.

but I have found that many songs that i have obtained from kazaa are now hijacked by the RIAA and various sound effects are added to them, such as: I d/led Black Eyed Peas - Where Is The Love, and after about thirty seconds, all I heard were scratches and something like a busy signal from a phone.

I get my music now from a different website. (forgive me for not naming it, for it is relatively new and I don't want the riaa to get their dirty little hands on it. IM me if you're interested.) ;)

They're giving away something like millions and millions of free songs.
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Mojo