We need to support subscription model websites, because they allow the discovery of new artists who are more talented than many of the popular singers and musicians. But even if you’re not that interested in supporting Indie music, there’s another reason why you should be angry at the half eaten piece of fruit that you buy your music from. To see what I’m talking about, go find the nicest stereo you know of, and play a copy of your apple MP3 downloads on the stereo. Then take out your CD-R and put in the original CD album in that stereo. The difference is indescribable. In the process of compressing the music file down to a couple of megabytes, Apple has effectively eliminated many of the overtones and subtle harmonies that add to the richness of a piece of music. While it is now possible to uncompress this music to recreate the original album, there is only so much data that can be rescued from a compressed file. eMusic.com can be seen to beat out apple in this respect.