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At least his latest album is still available, and you can hear 30 seconds out of 31 seconds of each track here: http://www.7digital.com/artist/kim-jong-deux/release/a-kim-jong-christmas

Maybe I'm crazy but I actually found the music not too bad. It's weird music but it seems to have something...

I didn't buy any mainstream music for the past few years because Amazon won't sell music in Canada and I'm boycotting iTunes entirely.

But then a friend referred me to a company willing to take my money, 7digital. Oddly, they don't show up in the first page of Google results for "Buy music in Canada".

If only there were other options

http://www.hmvdigital.ca/
http://www.puretracks.com/
http://music.scene.ca/
http://ca.7digital.com/
http://mp3caprice.com/

and of course
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Netflix_Instant_Watch_Devices/

http://ie.7digital.com/artists/ashley-tisdale/headstrong/

Stop the bittorrent download!
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http://ie.7digital.com/artists/ashley-tisdale/headstrong/

I don't pirate it either. I just do without. Why? Because I can't bring myself to give my hard earned money to the thieving cocksuckers that comprise the RIAA and contribute to their program of turning the internet into a police state.

Why don't you try to use the internet against the RIAA? You can legally download music from a number of websites. Some of them are:

• Creative Commons
• Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads
• Magnatune
• Podsafe music network
• 7digital

Now you may not find music you like but you might.

Falcon

Until now, the only DRM-free option with a comprehensive catalog was Amazon.

There are other sources of DRM-free music. Some of them are:

• Magnatune
• 7digital
• Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads
• podsafe music network

Those are just ones I have bookmarked.

Falcon

Personally I mainly use Emusic and (rarely) 7digital . Both sell unencumbered mp3's and work in Europe at least.

http://www.7digital.com/

70% of their catalogue is MP3, and they've even got FLACs of the last Radiohead album.
Unfortunately, some of their catalogue is protected WMA only.

Whoops, I had a reference to something called 7music above, but I meant 7digital.

I've bought a few discs that I've had trouble playing. A couple of them I just took straight back to the shop for a refund, but the others I was able to get working after some irritating fiddling around. Playback from the discs either failed or had impossibly juddering sound. My copy program (K9copy) wouldn't rip either disc properly from one DVD drive but succeeded with my older drive so I was able to watch my DVD's directly from an iso file. All of the DVDs were from Optimum Releasing, so they lost out on a couple of sales when I took them back unplayed. The two I kept were Princess Mononoke and Pan's Labyrinth. I don't know what protection is on these DVD's but it's very irritating and I've learned to check whether a DVD is from Optimum Releasing before I buy it.

And I'm holding off buying music until I get a decent DRM free download store. There's 7digital but their selection is pretty poor for the MP3 stuff. Whoever is first to offer quality MP3's from mainstream artists is going to get a lot of money from me.

Add to that 7digital ... Not totally DRM-free, but they do sell the tracks as MP3 when permitted.

see 7Digital

Radiohead has allowed for their music to be sold digitally. 7Digital has, more or less, their entire collection. Not only that, but they have it in WMA, AAC and MP3, no DRM required. A little more expensive than iTunes at £7.77 (about $14.60 USD), but not too bad,

http://www.warchildmusic.com/

http://www.7digital.com/stores/listing.aspx?shop=1 5&artist=304

They are encoded at 192Kbps and are unencumbered by any DRM - but sadly they cost 99p as opposed to iTunes' 79p.

They are also few and far between - generally from labels that don't mind the lack of DRM (the indies).

I've bought a few things from them or their affiliate shops (the recent Embrace single Nature's Law had a digital download only part to it that you can buy via their website) and on the whole they're pretty good - better quality than iTunes anyway.

That said, I shall probably still use iTunes for legal until someone (like Google?) offer me the following

• Downloads with no DRM
• A choice of file format and bit rate
• The excellent free Single of the Week

Who said you can't get something for nothing, eh?

Except that they don't quite seem to get it yet. They are offering here some videos from this car programme which apparently didn't quite make it to air,

Gun's don't kill people, rappers do