Amazon – The book site started offering mp3s for download a few years ago. The have monthly album download specials and charge .99 cents for most digital singles.

eMusic – They charge you a flat monthly fee. The key is if you do not use all your credits in that month, they do not rollover. Please read the fine print because after a few communications with eMusic they would not bend on this policy.

iTunes – Download the software to your machine. Older songs are .99 and newer songs are $1.29.

Kazaa – They have offer a free 7 Day trial. You have access to unlimited music downloads $14.99/mo FREE and access to unlimited Ringtone downloads $3.99/mo FREE. Their model is similiar to Rhapsody (see below).You can cancel at any time during your trial and your credit card will not be charged.

Napster – Listen to songs on demand from any device. Plans start as low as $5/month; the options are here.

Rhapsody – I checked it out the $14.99 for unlimited downloads deal for Rhapsody. You can access it anywhere. It’s like a subscription, you can transfer, and listen to the songs even if you cancel the subscription. You are physically downloading them, but it’s their own format. You can’t burn them to a CD. The downloaded songs are not supported on iTunes. They have a player that is proprietary to Rhapsody. If you want to physically own each song, it will cost between .89 – $1.29 per song and then you can burn them to a CD.

Walmart – The superstore started offering digital downloads a couple of years ago. They offer songs as low as .79 cents.

Are you a music lover? The other day I was looking to get into some new tunes. I really am just tried of what I’ve been listening to lately and wanted to really discover something completely different. Two years ago my friend Jason bought me an iTunes calendar and everyday it suggested a new tune I should check out. I obviously couldn’t keep up, but I did however end up getting turned on to new music avenues. I wanted to find something like it and I came across the emusic tool bar.

The emusic tool bar is a free install and everyday it gives you a complimentary song to download. Over the last week, I found a couple new artists that I’ve actually really enjoyed.

http://www.emusic.com/toolbar/download.html