I hate the pay sites because they all are greedy and won't agree on one format. Sucks if you want to get a player, you basically spend hundreds of dollars and then are forced to buy music from only one site or else not get to use the music. I bought a $180 MP3 player, but turns out it won't allow any paid music to be added. How stupid is that? So if the RIAA wants to *****, I will be glad to point out to them I would pay for music, but my investment on a player would be wasted. So either tell the industry to get on one standard like it should be, or leave us alone.
But truly the paid services are so much easier. How many times do you have to download what you think is a song on Kazaa until you get the real version? Some songs you can figure out which one is legit and which are faked, but not always. In all the whole music buying experience is so f-ed up, I have lost a lot of interest in new music in general.