Okay Brad... thanks to that post i've finally actually taken a good look at emusic, and i'm definitely going to get a 3 month subscription soon. They may not have the greatest selection of what i listen to most... but their catalogue of spoken word, classical, comedy, and country/bluegrass is WELL worth $45. I'm just going to cue it up and download for 3 months straight =].

Plus, they have a lot of albums that i already own that were ripped 4+ years ago at 128kbps, which i can just download with VBR encoding to save me the hassle. Definitely worth it.