I signed to Rhapsody where you can BURN songs for 79 cents, but you can not DOWNLOAD them! There might be an arbitrage where the cost of the number of songs on a CD is less than the price of the CD: i.e. 10 songs for $7.90 vs >$10 for the CD in the store.

I have not yet ripped the songs from the CD to upload it to my Rio, but I have played it in my CD player and it sounds fine to me!

I drive a Miata with loads of road noise so 128k is fine for me. I rarely get a chanc to listen to my music at home, unless it is on my PC.

So, yes, I favor the pay per song deal online....i think its about time as well!

Ed