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Amazon.com MP3s
I suppose that Amazon's download store is not really a product, but I have spent so much money there I have to talk about it.
Unlike the rest of the world, I don't have an iPod. I have a Creative Zen Vision:M which means that I can't use iTunes without going through a whole lot of mess. (Download song. Copy to CD. Upload song. Copy to Player.) So I was thrilled when Amazon started it DRM-free store. It doesn't have as much music as iTunes, but everything is reasonably priced.

If I'm really honest with myself though, my favorite thing about the store is the Specials. Every Friday at they have 5 for $5. Every day they have some ridiculously low priced album in the top right hand corner. I bought Aretha Franklin's I Never Loved a Man for $1.98 the other day.

Sometimes entire albums are free. Granted most people probably aren't excited that Naxos Very Best of Early Music is free but I am not one of those people. (The Kyrie eleison Christian-Arabic Tradition from Lebanon is sublime.)

The whole thing is a money sink. I should really stop.

Oh look, Bernstein conducts Gershwin...