I got to the office today and decided I needed some music to listen to while I worked. Yesterday Andy had mentioned to me that he had the new Weezer album shared on his iTunes library. Well, I decided to give it a listen. Unfortunately, the iTunes DRM would not let me even preview his tracks. Woe is iTunes.

I had been thinking about Amazon.com (since their site was down for several hours yesterday) so I decided to give their MP3 download service a whirl. The album was $8.99 for 256kbps MP3s, DRM-free. Downloading from Amazon requires their MP3 Downloader application which is now available for Windows, OS X and Linux.

Unfortunately, the application crashed after downloading a few tracks. This may be Vista's fault, who knows. I had clicked on 'Listen to Selected' which opened the track in Winamp (my default MP3 player).

After the downloader crashed I went back to my web browser and clicked on the link to download the album again. If I had already navigated away from the page I assume there would have been another spot in my order history for me to download it again... I hope.

Would I download from Amazon Music in the future? Sure. I haven't quite decided where I stand on DRM and digital possessions. I've honestly bought more DVD-Audio discs in the past year than I have regular albums over the past 5 years.