Posted by JJ on 08/07/07 16:46

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

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