Mac Music Downloading? Options

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What is the best recommended place to download music for mac? itunes is just too expensive even though it will be so convienent I just can't pay it. Is there anything better than Limewire? Is there anything that has a flat monthly rate or anything? This is so annoying.

[pushtobreak]

Mac Daddy,
Don't blame me.
...I hate what America has become and I have never been impressed by, or even watched the Grammy's. We got our Grammy nod for having a band, that against all lack of commercial viability, managed to stay together for 15 years. I was just trying to illustrate that I was not some arm chair musician.

-I meant laws are "supposed" to work. I was talking much more broadly about human civilization not specifically about the US. Certainly wherever you are now they have laws and while they may not all work, they are necessary .

-violence begets violence. Bombs are bombs, through law or otherwise. I abhor violence, mine or anyone else's (but I have to tip my hat to you for the guided missle arson).

Additionally:
-I'd say at least half of America knows it sucks.
-There are actually quite a few countries that are more backwards and racist than the US.
-Yes, music is mostly crap now.
-Don't dump on Brooklyn. NYC is still great even if it sucks!*
-George Bush is an idiot

Just for the record 1979 Punk Rock, that's what I was doing in NYC. The single I made at 15 can be bought on ebay for $200+. The people who buy that obviously aren't interested in an MP3. I still get $0 from it's sale. I played drums with 2Pac, voted #2 Live Rap Performance on MTV and recorded with Curtis Mayfield (Now I'm just tooting my horn but if I don't who will)....
(BTW Happy MLK Jr Day!)

Right now I'm watching a Soul Train rerun from the 70's on Channel 11...Minnie Riperton is lipsyncing "Loving You"


*Don't feel you have to read this but, reading what you wrote made me think of this. The Brooklyn I grew up in was mostly beat to shit. Packs of feral dogs, abandoned burnt out cars, broken glass, poverty, gangs, drugs. Yet, somehow, I'm still nostalgic for the good old days although, by all accounts it's much better now. It used to have so much more character. At around 7 years old me and a few friends were confronted by an enraged neighborhood gang seeking retribution on some local teens. The leader was carrying a sawed off shotgun and beat one of the guys I was with over the head with it repeatedly asking "Are you a mother f***er!..." That along with other similar incidents didn't fill me with a lot of hope for fighting back. I'm still somehow nostalgic. I always wished I lived in the 60's but I got the 70's.