Napster scam: day deuce

I've downloaded several more albums:

• Hum- Heaven Is Downward
• Damien Rice- O
• Superdrag- Head Trip In Every Key
• Suede- Dog Man Star

And some more, I'm sure. But whatevs. If you're still thinking of trying this little scam, the 'Pod gives it one and a half thumbs up. A few more pros:

• Totally rad browsing system: You can browse by so many genres...I just clicked on Pop, and it listed everything from Brill-Building to Euro-dance to Girl-group (clickin' on Britpop, snatch). There's also a category "Indie Labels," which very handily groups all artists on a given independent label. (What up, Kindercore.)
• Still jackin' shit fer free: I think I'm going to run out of albums I want to download before I run out of time in the free trial offer.

A few more cons:

• Shit is slow: The downloading is actually pretty quick, but the interface is pretty sluggish, and I get lots of "connection timed out" errors. Lame.
  
• Selection: Lots and lots of free albums for downloading, no qualms there. But the breadth and depth of artists leaves something to be desired. And they have an annoying habit (also shared by iTunes) of leaving off a track or two from an album. Not all the time, by any means, but often enough that it got old real fast. They dropped FOUR TRACKS from that William Orbit album.

Also, I've run out of hard disk space more than once during the conversion process. Do one album at a time, and you should be fine. I listened to a few of yesterday's albums on my iPod today, and the sound is fine. No issues.