For years I and many others have been asking for online music store that offered affordably priced music without all the restrictions that places like iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc. put on the files.
Amazon has finally answered our prayers with their new MP3 download service. Prices vary depending on the song or album, presumbly set by the artist or label, but they average around the $0.99 mark that everyone seems comfortable with. The big news however is that there is no DRM on the files at all! You can play your songs on your iPod, Zune, your computer at home, your office computer, anywhere you want! You can even burn to CD as many times as you want.
Amazon doesn’t have all the major labels signed up, but there is a pretty decent selection, and if it works, we my see the other labels follow suit soon.
Also of note, Apple’s current “theme song” for their new iPods, 1234 by Feist, is the number one song on Amazon right now. It’s also cheaper ($0.89) at Amazon. 
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