I’ve figured out a pretty good way to buy digital music and avoid getting the DRM version unless absolutely unnecessary. Anytime I discover some music I want to buy, heres how I go about finding/buying it:
- 1) First, I have an eMusic account. Its $20/month, DRM free, and I get 50 downloads. The catch is they support mostly indie labels so the more main stream stuff is usually not on there. Since I mostly buy and listen to electronic music, more times than not the music I’m looking for is there.
- 2) If eMusic doesnt have it, I search on Amazon.com. They have an ever growing collection of 100% DRM free downloads…almost as big as iTunes. They have a lot of DRM-free music that iTunes does not.
- 3) If Amazon doesn’t have it, I search iTunes. They are getting to where they have a lot of DRM-free downloads for the same price as the DRM stuff.
I used to foolishly buy DRM music and will likely end up loosing that music as old DRM technology fades out. I’m really more tempted to use bit torrent to get music that I cannot buy DRM-free.
UPDATE:It appears as Sony BMG has been reading my blog, just a couple days after this post they announced that they’re going DRM-free. Haha, like they had a choice.
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