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Free Music Online (and legally too!)
According to an article on the Register, Peter Gabriel (presumably the same Peter Gabriel of ex-Genesis and solo artiste fame) has a company called OD2, which is offering DRM-protected music on its site Digital Download Today and giving UK users a free £5 credit to start with 
Said site is currently down with chronic overload, but the Register article lists the tarrif as :
I'm not sure if thats £1 a track or £1 a CD. Probably £1 a track.
It seems a very shrewd move to me. You can listen to the track to see if you like it and download it to your personal PC for next to nothing.
But when you want to burn a CD which costs £1 a track, your typical 12-15 track CD is going to cost about as much as it does in the shop, except you supply the blank CD, the labels and all the hardware to do it.
Said site is currently down with chronic overload, but the Register article lists the tarrif as :
...streaming one of 100,000 tracks for 1p, downloading one for 10p, or burning one to CD for £1.
It seems a very shrewd move to me. You can listen to the track to see if you like it and download it to your personal PC for next to nothing.
But when you want to burn a CD which costs £1 a track, your typical 12-15 track CD is going to cost about as much as it does in the shop, except you supply the blank CD, the labels and all the hardware to do it.
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