After years of complaining about the lack of a solid, viable model of Internet distribution for music, I have finally discovered a service that fits my needs well: lala.com. You can purchase MP3s from the site for about the same as anywhere else, 89 cents a song. However, the real quality of the site is twofold. First, you get one free web streaming play of every song in the catalog, and second, you can buy a web-only copy of the song with unlimited plays for 10 cents. The catalog is quite extensive; for instance, I found a copy of Chris Knight’s “Home Sick Gypsy” and Cephas and Wiggins’ “Sick Bed Blues” without any trouble at all.
If you are not already a member, sign up for lala now. At the moment, signing up gives you 25 song credits for web-only songs. Full disclosure: if you sign up using the link on this page, I also get an additional 5 credits, so USE MY LINK 
