Zuuuuuune!

So I don't know who the artists above are, but it's there because I like to illustrate my posts. =D

Anyway, after learning about the Zune Pass I decided to try it with a 14-day free pass. The Zune Pass allows you to subscribe and listen to practically (emphasis on the practically) unlimited amount of music available at their 'marketplace' and keep 10 songs permanently for $14.99 a month! Of course, the subscription's no good and therefore the music downloaded will stop working if you don't keep up with the payments! (The 10 songs will still work since they would be DRM free). I think this is great for someone like me who's paranoid about getting caught downloading music. The music can be transferred between 3 music players and 2 other computers. The 3 players will most likely be my Sansa Clip my Honey got me for graduation (thanks!) and my cell phone-though I would have to get an adapter for the 2.5mm jack (lame) and quite possibly the Sansa clip I gave my mom.

So far the only thing I don't like about this service is the software they make you download. The software takes up some space on the hard drive as expected, but it is a giant leech on the system's resources. I can barely websurf on my 4-5 yr old computer when I'm running it. =( It all seems worth it to me at the end though seeing as how they have albums as recent as GreenDay (2009) available and as far back as Pete Seeger (1950?) so I'll probably be paying the $14.99/mo for guilt-free downloading!