I am curious as to what you guys are talking about. Isn't the service in question just a music club service that allows you to listen to any music you want in any quantity you want while you're a member? That means for a monthly fee (8 bucks on Virgin Digital, not sure the Napster price) folks can literally download thousands of songs and listen to them as much as they want as long as they are subscribers? I think that for the cost of 1 CD a month, having access to a library of millions of songs is an amazingly GOOD deal. The way you guys are discussing it, you make it sound like they bought a single song for a dollar and then couldn't access that single song after they stopped subscribing. It's a misleading argument for what the service is.

Anyone who uses the music club services I think will find it not only a great value, but a logical replacement for buying CD's. If you have Cable TV and stop paying the cable TV bill, you can no longer watch the Cable TV stations. The music service is really no different, expect in many ways it is far better than Cable because the entire catalog is On Demand, whereas cable only offers a tiny number of movies and shows on Demand and often those come with additional fees for new releases. So, for 96 dollars a year, you have the worlds largest music collection at your fingertips whenever you want it. You could only buy about 8 CD's for that same money a year. The subscription service is a WAY better deal.

It's also a great way to discover new music. With itunes you only get 30 seconds to determine whether you like something. With these subscription services, you can listen to every new release, ever old release, anything suggested by someone and in my case, you can hear some old songs that you really don't even want to pay to download, but you'd like to hear once or twice. You can download these catalogs to your offline devices so I just can't find the real downside. Sure, go ahead and buy CD's if you want, but you'll have to be happy with 8 CD's a year and no access to anything else.

Subscriptions are already the best thing going. And I bet they will only get better and more popular as time goes on.

Brian

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