I joined Emusic today. I've had well over a gigabyte off them already. It's ten bucks a month if you sign up for 12 months. The selection is not perfect, but it's always going to be bringing in a stream of new music and it is getting better. They have enough stuff in the genres I like for me to be very happy (I'm particularly happy with the large amount of Mille Plateaux material available). Sure I'd like more Aphex Twin and Wu Tang Clan, but I just can't get it so never mind. DJ Assault it is.

My thoughts exactly. You can't always get what you want, but you can get something interesting that you haven't heard before. The big thing I've found with eMusic is that it makes it very easy to try new things and just go off on one in a totally new area - for example, I spent a lot of time in the world music section, and found some cracking stuff that I would never have bought, and could never have found on the p2p networks. Plus you get that warm, slightly smug glow of not-piracy... : )

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