Rhapsody

If you’ve been living in a cave for the past few years, then you may not be aware of the huge changes taking place in the music industry.

For years, music was sold in the form of a physical product. Whether it was vinyl records, 8-Tracks, cassette tapes, or compact discs, the only way to listen to your favorite tunes (other than hearing them on the radio randomly) was to purchase the music in one of these formats.

Well kids, that’s all changing. The web has enabled us to STREAM music from one computer to the next without having a physical device to do it (other than your computer of course).

One of the best services that streams music online is Rhapsody. By using Rhapsody, I can pretty much listen to every piece of recorded music ever produced whenever I want to. All for about $15 per month.

That’s a pretty bold statement, but it’s true. Can you imagine how much it would cost to by every album that Rhapsody has? Zillions of dollars, that’s how much. Zillions.

Rhapsody is a different business model than what’s traditionally found in the music industry, and a lot of people have a hard time grasping it. Once you check it out, though, and start listening to pretty much ANY SONG you want to, whenever, with no limitations, you start to see how incredibly awesome it is.

Ever lose you music before? I know i have. Friends steal your CDs. You drop your Ipod in the bath tub. Your computer crashes and you loose ALL 5,000 songs you painstakingly uploaded over the course of a couple of years. These things have actually happened.

With Rhapsody, you need not worry about these things, cause you don’t physically have the music. You’re not taking up any space on your computer either with all that damn music. You just login, pick the album, and press play.

Now, as with everything in life, Rhapsody isn’t perfect. It does have its flaws. But the good outweighs the bad so much, you’ll learn to live with them.

They don’t have EVERY single song ever recorded, every in the history of the universe.

Some bands haven’t warmed up to the whole “renting” of music thing, and Rhapsody has been given access to it yet. Metallica. The Beatles. You’ll find some big acts aren’t on there. Not yet anyway. Once the world jumps on the Rhapsody bandwagon, these acts will show up. All in due time.

Sometimes the Rhapsody skips a little when you have a million applications running in your browser. and yes, ya gotta have a good Internet connection to use the service. if you’re using dial-up, you’re living in the stone ages anyway and probably aren’t using the computer that much anyway.

Can you take Rhapsody to go? YES! They actually support certain MP3 players that let you take your music with you! So no, you don’t have to carry your computer around on your shoulder like a boombox.

CDs are so 20th century.

Try Rhapsody for 14 days FREE and get unlimited listening access to 3,00,000+ songs from 80,000+ artists.