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atimholt:
Okay, so I'm new here, but I was wondering how many people here use a music subscription service. I use Rhapsody. I like it because I can stream all my music without having to fill up my hard drive, I can listen to almost any music I hear about, and ... um... music is good.
There are only rare holes in music availability, but they are very gaping ones. The Beatles is unavailable. All of Radiohead except for In Rainbows, and Led Zeppelin.
But they've got so much good stuff. Almost everything I ever hear of.

Maybe most of you just pirate. To each his own.

I figured a thread like this would be a good place to ask about various services. What's available on the Zune Marketplace, for example, that isn't available on Rhapsody? This is something I'm curious about, because I think I'll eventually switch. Unless their holes are more gaping.

This is probably a stupid thread. How many of you just pirate music?

wm_star:
We subscribe to eMusic and occasionally supplement with purchases from iTunes (mostly because people keep giving us iTunes gift cards!).  I like eMusic for the opposite reason you like Rhapsody, because I *can* download AND KEEP the music - it's not like other services that say once you stop subscribing, you can't use the music any more.  You are buying the music, and you get a certain number of downloads every month with your monthly payment (and can buy more if you run out and want more stuff that month - I think we pay like, $20/month and get 75 downloads or something like that).  It's got a lot of smaller, more indie stuff - we still have to go to iTunes for most of the mainstream things, but eMusic is getting more all the time, so maybe we won't have to for long?

Divide by Zero:
I usually use iTunes or even Amazon.com when I don't just skull-and-crossbones it. There's some stuff I've been able to find on iTunes that I haven't been able to find elsewhere, although I haven't looked at that many sites. I found Mark Ronson's cover of No One Knows through iTunes, and I doubt that I would be able to find it easily elsewhere. Also, there's some college a Capella stuff that's important to me that I can't find anywhere else, including the BOCA stuff.

valley_parade:

--- Quote from: atimholt on 21 Mar 2008, 03:16 ---Radiohead except for In Rainbows

--- End quote ---

Not to sound like a dick, but you paid for all of Radiohead's albums, and DON'T have the one that was free?

Frig. That's the only one I do have.

michaelicious:
I think he meant that In Rainbows is the only Radiohead album available on that website he is advertising for.

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