Pay as You go MP3 Downloads.

Oh sweetie, that is exactly what I don't want… no subscriptions, free or otherwise. Subscriptions have contracts and clauses and emails with fantastic offers…. I want to pay and play.

I may be crazy, but I find myself comparing it to digital books I've been getting into. I pay X amount for Y number of books, and once my card clears I am directed to Z download page with links for the books I bought.

But everyone wants to have me streaming to a 3G device that I haven't bothered to buy. (Unless your willing to shell out about $100 or so for your plan a month it's nearly useless, and I don't NEED to check my email away from home THAT badly.)

Right now I have plenty of MP3's I made off my cd's loaded to my phone… I just want to be able to legally purchase additional ones without subscriptions or data plans I don't have and have no wish to get.

And please don't think I'm taking issue with you, this is general purpose frustration. 

And how sad is that? I mean I love the options we have over the internet, but who would have thought cash and “carry” would not be one of them.

That I get, I mean the payment IS electronic so I probably should have “cash” there. I just want to be able to buy the file without having to install any new programs onto my system. The problem is that they all seem to have “download managers” which means “Click here to agree to a long legal document it would take a lawyer a week to decode, but basically allows us to do as we will to your system.”

I may just end up going with Amazon, because while they DO have a download manager, you seem to be able to click to not use it and just download via the browser.

That's a big part of it too. I mean if someone sold CD's that could only be played on their brand of CD players… well I basically want to be able to buy digital music with the same legal rights I would have if I bought it hard copy. Again, happy to pay (I know, broken record, but the companies doing this shit are using piracy as their excuse) just wanting to enjoy it as I choose.

I didn't explain well, I don't mind having to set up an account, but I don't want to have to download a program to download the mp3's, and the problem is that all of them want me to set up an account before explaining what it's going to take.

So I'm hoping one of us knows a good site where I could set up and account (NOT a monthly fee membership, just an account), make a purchase and mp3s that I can play on any device that plays mp3s. WITHOUT any specialized hardware or software from the originating site.

Can Paypal exchange currencies? Because while I couldn't read the site I could tell it wasn't set up for dollars (at least not the parts I looked at).

I thought of that to “What's the exchange rate? cause I'm guessing the dollar is still crap right now.”  I'm gaining perspective… and thinking I will go Amazon. I think I'll have to click “No I don't want the download manager.” for each and every damn song, BUT I'm stubborn enough to put up with it just so I can say I didn't buckle and give them an unknown level of access to my system for nothing more then the sake of convenience.