If you :
- Are a fan of music
- Spend a lot of time near a computer
- Have an extra $10 a month
Then I would recommend trying out Real Rhapsody. It's a subscription based, on-demand music catalog that allows you to listen to and download from over 1,000,000+ songs. We've been subscribed for about three months and absolutely love it. You can connect it to your home stereo and have a virtually limitless music library available to listen to. You only have to purchase songs if you want to burn them to a CD.
Unfortunately for mac users, Rhapsody only works on PCs for now. Fortunately, the Boudreausian household has both a mac and a pc. One loaded with songs from Rhapsody and the other from iTunes. :) Although, I doubt I will use iTunes again since purchasing songs from Rhapsody is ten cents less expensive than iTunes.
Rhapsody also offers a service called Rhapsody-to-Go, which for $15 a month you can put all your downloaded songs on your portable mp3 player. Unfortunately, iPod doesn't support these files yet... which happens to be my portable player of ownership... so I haven't upgraded to this service. I am debating whether or not to wait until iPod supports Rhapsody files (if ever) or just getting another mp3 player.