ran accross a very cool music site the other day: magnatune.com they've got a very sane approach to DRM, which is to say they don't use it! moreover, their albums have carry suggested prices only, you pay as much as you feel like, and you can download mp3s, ogg, uncompressed WAV files, and best of all FLAC. what's FLAC? it's an acronym for Free Lossless Audio Codec, and like the name says offers a lossless (unlike MP3) way of compressing full CD-rez files to make it easier to download them. you can then decompress them to WAV or AIF files, or, with players such as the free, cross-platform VLC player you can play them back w/o decompressing. FLACer is an easy tool to decompress FLAC files on a mac. there are plenty of windows alternatives on versiontracker. i have no connection to magnatune, but i've bought five or six albums, in several different genres, at $8/ea. and they've been superb. check 'em out.
