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Posted by dnstg7.8. on 08/07/07 21:57
"JJ" <jj21@remove.cornell.edu> wrote in message
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> I've read any number of complaints about itunes, but my biggest complaint
> is that they just don't have a lot of the songs I want. Usually older
> songs (from 1965-1995). For example, I had no luck finding the original
> Sir Mix-A-Lot version of Baby Got Back (1992) or the disco version of
> Knock on Wood by Amii Stewart (1979) on itunes.
>
> I started to search at other sites, but I don't want a service with a
> monthly fee, I want a pay-per-track service. I'd prefer a a site that you
> can pay for one song at a time, but I'd consider sites where you pay a
> flat fee for a number of songs. I tried wal-mart, but I can't import the
> protected WMA song into itunes and play it on my ipod. I've already got
> itunes on my laptop, and while I'm not happy with the overhead it
> generates, it's already there - but I'd rather not have to install some
> other piece of suspect software in order to use a download site (like
> emusic.com)
>
> I'm perfectly happy to pay for the songs and I'll even put up with the
> whole copy protection thing. I just want to get the songs for a
> reasonable fee like ~ $1 per song.
>
> I was poking around and stumbled across places like lavamus.com and
> mp3stor.com. Which did have most of the songs I wanted and the per-song
> price was very inexpensive, and I was even willing to buy in for a fixed
> amount to get a bunch of downloads, but when I tried this on lavamus, it
> gave me an error that the sore was closed. I later read that these sites
> are run by eastern european companies that are not licensing the songs
> from the record companies - and lavamus was probably shut down for that
> reason.
>
> Don't the record companies want the money they could be making off
> legitimate downloads? Why aren't these songs available?
>
> Are there any legitimate sites I can go to that have a better selection of
> older songs than itunes, where I can download songs on a pay-per-song
> basis?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -JJ
>
My problem with getting legit music is that the sites I've visited all want
credit card info up front before letting me look at what they have
available.
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