Napster.com
Napster came back for file sharing (for money) a few months ago. Now they are giving away an MP3 player with a subscription to the service. The Subscription costs $119.00, and the free player is for sale on amazong for $110.00. This would be great if the subscription actually got you MP3's, but to transfer the songs to an Mp3 Player, you still need to buy them for $.99.
Napster also claims to have thousands of songs. While they did have That Dog, The Rentals, The Eels, and several other lesser known bands, they lacked others like The Special Goodness.
In either case, $.99 for a song still seems pretty high considering you don't get a CD and cover art and that most CD's (that Napster has) can be bought for less than $9.99 (the cost of buying a whole album) at the Target.
Finally, unless you are independently wealthy, there is no way using napster ever makes sense. besides the cost of the subscription being relatively high--high when you consider you don't actually own any of the songs and that you can't listen to them if you don't have the napster service--their is just so much music available you would need to dedicate your life to selecting and downloading music you like. And then if you want to listen to it anywhere other than at your computer, you still have to buy it for a dollar. Doesn't seem to make much sense.
In either case, it seems like the Eels put out another album last year when I wasn't paying attention. I guess I have to go track it down now.
Napster also claims to have thousands of songs. While they did have That Dog, The Rentals, The Eels, and several other lesser known bands, they lacked others like The Special Goodness.
In either case, $.99 for a song still seems pretty high considering you don't get a CD and cover art and that most CD's (that Napster has) can be bought for less than $9.99 (the cost of buying a whole album) at the Target.
Finally, unless you are independently wealthy, there is no way using napster ever makes sense. besides the cost of the subscription being relatively high--high when you consider you don't actually own any of the songs and that you can't listen to them if you don't have the napster service--their is just so much music available you would need to dedicate your life to selecting and downloading music you like. And then if you want to listen to it anywhere other than at your computer, you still have to buy it for a dollar. Doesn't seem to make much sense.
In either case, it seems like the Eels put out another album last year when I wasn't paying attention. I guess I have to go track it down now.
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