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.

[hahaworld]

Dear MacDaddy,

So far, the MacPro they gave me as a replacement for that horrid G5 is working well. The only problems I have had have had to do with Leopard, which came pre-installed on the machine. Some of my software hasn't caught up with it yet, but so far, everyone but Steinberg's Virtual Guitarist and Synthogy's Ivory has told me they will be supporting Leopard very soon. I've got friends who are using Ivory on their Leopard MacPros, but I can't make it work yet. I picked up a copy of Acoustik Piano, which to my ear sounds even better than Ivory. I just got word that Ivory will have Upright Pianos in the near future, which sounds pretty cool. Right now, though, I'm using Akoustic Piano, and it's beautiful. I'm very excited about the PLAY version of EastWest Platinum symphony. I haven't been able to use it since I got the MacPro, but the folks at EastWest assure me it's coming soon. I think they just debuted it at NAMM. I'm fairly drooling in expectation, because I love the EastWest sounds. I've gotten the window shade of death about once every three weeks on this machine. Not sure why, but a force-restart seems to set things right again.

As for my "preaching" comments, you guys feel free to rant all you want. We should all take advantage of the freedom of speech while we can. You can't just say whatever you want just any old where in the world. Truth is, I was already in a bad mood when I stumbled on that thread, and a little free speech just tumbled out of me, too.