eMusic is my personal favorite. eMusic specializes in independent music, so if you are looking for releases from major record labels, eMusic is probably not the right site for you. However, there is music from big artists, and there is an extremely wide variety of music that is well known and sometimes relatively obscure. Some artists you can find on eMusic: The White Stripes, Pavement, The Arcade Fire, Bob Marley, and many, many more. The eMusic service uses LAME compression to produce variable bit rate MP3 files with an average bitrate of 192 kbit/s and the songs are about .30 cents a piece. Payment is on a subscription basis. You do get at least 25 free downloads upon signing up for the service (but you must have a credit card to sign up).
Let me know if you are interested, I will send you an email invite.
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