allofmp3 is legal...in Russia. Actually there's a lot of debate about their legality. It's no longer possible to buy music from their site via mastercard or visa. The pressure has been put on them from you know who. It's been disabled. There is another way involving changing the langauage to Russion on the site. YOu'll have to search google for the rest. I've never had a problem in the past with my visa when I bought music. All music I bought from the site was either lossless in flac or WMP. I refuse to buy music online that doesn't allow me to burn it more than 3 times or only use it a specific number of pc's. Plus at crappy quality to top it off!

It's a Russian based site. They claim that they are legal under Russian law, but no money goes back to the publishers, artists, writers, etc. The US is trying very hard to shut them down.

They also offer 320kbps...cd quality..

Any other sites that are legal offer the selection that they do with that kind of quaity? I have read the thread, and I cannot see any sites with that much selection.

I'll just pop up to throw in my recommendation for eMusic as well. I listen to lots of indie-rock/pop and jazz, and eMusic is GREAT for that; not so good for major acts/top-40. No-strings attached, inexpensive, high-bitrate (VBR).

It's cheap enough that if you're a stickler for audio-quality and don't believe in subjecting your premium equipment to mp3's, you can use eMusic to "audition" a ton of stuff, then buy CDs of the stuff you like best.

It's a TREMENDOUS bargain for, say, some of the John Coltrane live European stuff I got: barely more than a quarter per song + 15-25 minute songs = big value! Plus it's not optimal recording quality in the first place, so you're not apt to lose much on good mp3s.

Dang, I love eMusic. My monthly subscription renews today, in fact. Fun!

If only itunes started to sell 320kbps files, I would go to them in a second, right now I am trying the "backdoor" way to allofmp3.com because of the quality of recordings they provide. Don't try and shut them down, just provide a service in NA that can match them, and I think the music industry would be suprised to see more business coming to itunes or something if they offered higher quality stuff.

I thought I read that you could burn 7 copies of a specific playlist.

I do like the iTunes store - specifically the $.99/song and $9.99/album (average). The quality for me is acceptable, and if I really like the CD and want better sound, I'll just go buy it from a B&M.

The last CD I bought was the Dixie Chicks for $17.00 + 14%tax CDN. I went that way thinking the sound quality would be better than on iTunes. It wasn't. Content 9. Sound 5. I was ticked. I could have saved the extra nine bucks!

while not really an mp3 site
LaLa.com
lets you trade your physical audio disks for other audio disks. $1.75 per trade including shipping. They provide the shipping supplies. so if there are more than 2 songs on a disk you would like, it may be cost efficient to get them that way. The rarer or more demand a disk you want, the harder it is to get. I have had no real problems getting classic rock and greatest hits collections.

I'm having lots of fun getting new disks.

I guess I am not the norm anymore, but I only buy albums. I don't get the point of buying one song off of itunes, unless it is something you haven't heard that you want to try, but in that case, I want to try the whole album. I would not want to buy the one song they already play over and over on the radio. You already hear it enough in that format.