PayPlay.fm

So, not sure if I've mentioned this site before, but there's this great site called PayPlay.fm.  It's like itunes, but not shitty.  All their music has no DRM.  That means you can copy, burn, or transfer it as much as you like, which is good, seeing as how you own it.  $0.88 per song too!  It doesn't have huge people, anyone on a big label isn't going to be here.  But for smaller acts, or indie types, it's great.  I got a bunch of irish and latin music here.  Plus, they've started this cool "karma" system.  For signing up (25 points) and logging in (1 point a day) and buying music (1 point per song) you get karma points, and every point earns you one free karma song!  Every other band (or so) on payplay offers one song per album as a karma track that you can get for free with your points. It's a totally slick way to try out other bands to see if you like them.

If, however, you insist on using itunes, EMI (this is old news) now has DRM-free music there.  So buy lots of EMI music to tell apple that DRM = unhappy customers = less money.  Universal is also going DRM free, but they don't really like itunes, so their stuff is on Rhapsody, a couple others, and a new service with Google called G-Box. They are doing it as a trial, so people should buy that to convince them as well.  Amazon is supposed to have a DRM-free store at some point too, but it hasn't appeared yet.

So, go buy DRM-free music! fight the man! fight the power!  viva la revolution!  I'm sure I spelled that wrong!