eMusic.com
These days, CDs are being purchased less and less. This is because most of the music people get comes from the internet. A lot of people use services such as iTunes because it is legal and free viruses, but at an average of 99 cents a song (Yes there are times you can get whole albums for less than that but to buy songs individually it is pricey) there are certainly better options out there that are cheaper. One of those options is eMusic.com. All of the music that is downloaded is free of Digital Rights Management which means you are free to put it on your MP3 player or burn CDs with the music you have downloaded.
The cost of the program varies from $5.99 a month to $74.99 a month. What’s different is that you pay monthly or annually a certain amount for an allotment of downloads. The $5.99 plan, for example allows 10 downloads per month, while the $74.99 plan allows 300 downloads per month. While this limits the amount you can download in a month and can be disappointing during a certain month when there are a lot of good releases if you have one of the smaller plans, you certainly get a good value. That means the most expensive one song can be is 60 cents but they can be as cheap as 25 cents. That’s a good deal
Also, you they offer great deals with free trials. You are able to download 25 songs for free with most of the free trials that they offer. You have 14 days to try the service at no cost to you, and you can get approximately 2 CDs during that time.
While not the best service out there, eMusic.com has a wide variety of music that they offer and is a good resource for those who are looking for a legal alternative to the peer to peer networks that are often dangerous because of viruses and the recent government crackdown on people who are downloading music illegally.
