Where do you buy your music?

[foghorn67]

I was going to sign up for an Urge account, but it went to Rhapsody. The link prompted me for a new client, which I don't want to. It's also Music To Go, or whatever they call.
I just want buy songs, not rent them.
Any suggestions? I'm actually tempted by the Wal Mart store. Never thought I'd say that.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Well there's Amazon, iTunes, and the Zune marketplace.

There's really no end all be all solution at this time, nor do I think there will be one anytime soon. Just about every place has its own shortcomings, beyond just the fact that its compressed audio to begin with. Personally, I still just buy CDs, although thats just as much of a crapshoot as far as quality goes.

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
Well there's Amazon, iTunes, and the Zune marketplace.

There's really no end all be all solution at this time, nor do I think there will be one anytime soon. Just about every place has its own shortcomings, beyond just the fact that its compressed audio to begin with. Personally, I still just buy CDs, although thats just as much of a crapshoot as far as quality goes.

Thanks for the suggestions. I haven't bought a new MP3 player in years, and I just got one yesterday.

 

[amol]

BitTorrent :evil:

just kidding

iTunes for me, mostly because I won a $100 iTunes gift card during the summer.

 

[Skeeedunt]

I just tried Amazon's DRM-free mp3 store. So far so good. Decent selection and easy to use.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I buy CDs and rip to lossless FLAC for music I like enough to keep.

For music I like a bit less and for single songs, I rent via Napster to Go, works great with my Sandisk Sansa.

 

[Parasitic]

Originally posted by: Skeeedunt
I just tried Amazon's DRM-free mp3 store. So far so good. Decent selection and easy to use.

Is it direct download yet or does one still have to go through a client?

 

[potato28]

I buy the CD's still. It's nicer having a hard copy in case of a random XP crash.

 

[FoBoT]

i buy used CD's on half.com (and sometimes FS/T) and rip them myself

 

[Aimster]

I buy my blank CDs at Microcenter

 

[Aluvus]

Originally posted by: Parasitic

Originally posted by: Skeeedunt
I just tried Amazon's DRM-free mp3 store. So far so good. Decent selection and easy to use.

Is it direct download yet or does one still have to go through a client?

Download via browser for single songs, whole albums require their app.

 

[randomlinh]

amazonmp3 or itunes (usually only the itunes+ stuff). Altho, I dunno if promoting DRM-free is the way to go... or just boycott the RIAA all together.

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: Aimster
I buy my blank CDs at Microcenter

or bestbuy

 

[Pabster]

Amazon is making a good effort with the Amazon MP3 Store.

But iTunes remains my choice.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Pabster
Amazon is making a good effort with the Amazon MP3 Store.

But iTunes remains my choice.

Definitely for browsing.....but I will check with Amazon this time 'round once I find something I like.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

amazon is great. they had something i was looking for but didnt want to pay like 25 bucks for the cd. no DRM = teh awesome.

 

[Canai]

I've bought a couple singles through itunes, but I usually just rip or download CDs that I have (yes, 'illegally', but it's not right that I have to either rip myself or pay for shit quality singles via itunes)

I with they had a high quality (>198kbps) download store

 

[indamixx99]

I usually download Trance, so either through www.beatport.com, or www.audiojelly.com

 

[mrrman]

buy???whats that

 

[frostedflakes]

CDBaby also offers digital download, and the coolest part is that like 91% of sales goes directly to artists (they basically keep enough to cover bandwidth and other administrative costs). And the cool thing is once you've purchased an album you can download it an unlimited number of times, so no worries if you have to reformat.

I've heard a lot of great things about Amazon's service as well, although I haven't used it.

 

[torpid]

I buy the cds at amazon, best buy, or my local cd store (B Side)

 

[EGGO]

www.vonyc.com www.djdownload.com for mp3s, mostly and for cds it's whatever looks reputable.

 

[imported_Imp]

CDs at HMV and Amazon. Downloads only from iTunes; started using them cause they had unique stuff, didn't want to spread my credit card around and already signed up, so just stuck with it.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Arrrr matey, I buy all my tunes from...

Just kidding.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: EGGO
www.vonyc.com www.djdownload.com for mp3s, mostly and for cds it's whatever looks reputable.

the second site is damn interesting...