I guess I have to become a pirate once again. It seems allofmp3.com has lost the support of Visa/Mastercard, and I can’t friggin use my credit cards, for whatever reason, with clickandbuy, and now I can’t buy music.

You might say that allofmp3.com was illegal in the first place (not true - was plenty legal by Russian laws, though a new agreement will apparently change that come June 2007), or that there’s other legal alternatives, like… iTunes, Rhapsody, [insert other drm crap here]. But I can’t use any of those. Because I use Linux.

So I guess, if I’m going to listen to music, I have to pirate it. I hate the idea of pirating something I would willingly pay for - if only it were in a format I could use. And I won’t buy albums - I’m already deleting tons of mp3s off my disks just because they’re all the “extra” songs on the albums that I don’t like, and don’t want to listen to, and I don’t have the money to spend even $13 on songs I /like/ in a month, let alone $13 on a gamble cd filled mostly with crap I wouldn’t listen to if /I/ was the one getting paid. And besides, then I have to do something with the bloody cds and cases…

Geh. If music was available without DRM, so I could play it anywhere, and copy it to whatever computer/device I wanted, on any operating system, and it was under 50 cents a song, I’d bite. I could spend $5 a month on songs, or $10-15 every couple months, and I’d be happy. Hell, even if iTunes, which I think is overpriced, cut off their DRM crap so I could play it on my computer, I’d buy from them, even at the high prices. *sigh*

But oh well. A pirating I shall go.

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