For some reason, I cannot sleep before trips. It's just a four hour drive ... and I'm not even driving, but I'm jumping with excitement. My first real vacation in a long time. The beach awaits me!

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In case you haven't heard, AllOfMP3.com has released AllTunes, which allows you to pay $0.09 per song and $1.50 per album of music. It has all the popular albums ... how is it so cheap?

The site is hosted in Russia. The legality of the site was actually upheld in court - the site is perfectly legal! Whether it's legal to buy here in the States is another question ... but possession of MP3s is not illegal; distribution is. So as far as I know, AllTunes provides a very legitimate, cheap, and fast way to get all your favorite music cheap.

Apparently they do pay royalties (although not much) to the original song-writers as well... and the music files have no DRM! They are plain MP3 files... I can send them to friends, copy it to my iPod, send it to my other computers on my home network... w00t!

I'll try it next week and let you know how it is.

Have an awesome weekend, everybody!