were can you download mp3s legally

[smeezekitty]

OGG Vorbis is a good lossless format.

nope -- Ogg vorbis is lossy just not nearly as much and its open source (is mp3 open source?)

[Geek-9pm]

Nice pseudo-quote. But all of you are seriously off topic. The OP asked where to download music. He didn't specify what format it should be in. A one-word answer to the OP's question is "iTunes".

Besides iTunes...
Rhapsody (USA only), a product of Realnetworks

And check out Songbird. (this is a video, Its cool.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzr858zD6gY
 

[BC_Programmer]

"MP3 encoding  is so bad that If MP3 is not against the law, it sure should be." -pseudo quote from BC programmer without permission

heh, even despite that rant there, I do have a good portion of my Music in MP3, (just so long as it's 320kbps or higher, heh). It's not really that I'm against MP3 but rather the idea of paying for music, and then getting it in a lossy format.




the problem with iTunes is you need to install iTunes.... but that's another rant for another time, perhaps.