I’ve been waiting to hear this for a long long time! “Death Magnetic” is going to be awesome and I can’t wait for 9/12/08/
As I’m sure a lot of you have heard by now, Napster is offering drm free mp3’s. While slightly late to the original party, it’s still a welcome change to see. The files are in 256kbps and that’s a bitrate on par with all the other drm free music stores, except for eMusic. (Ed. They use 192kbps VBR MP3 format) The tracks are still .99 a piece, but albums are .05 cheaper then iTunes, $9.95 compared to $9.99 and even higher on iTunes.
I’m still very happy with the audio quality and consider this time and money well spent. Napster might not have been able to do this sooner legally, but with the new consumer climate of anti-drm, I do hope more and more online venues for drm free music start to appear in the future.