Quote Originally Posted by kexodusc
Hey, you won't get an argument from me on the merits of lossless, but I have plenty o' storage space. You still can't buy FLAC/ALAC/WMA-Lossless from most services though, so lossy is necesary sometimes.
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Yeah, it's a pity that we can't download lossless. As a mainly classical listener, I'm usually interested in downloading an entire CD. I absolutely refuse to pay as much for 192kbps downloads as I would for the physical CD.

$1.30 per "song" for higher-rez (but still very lossy) format is a scam perpetrated by the music distributors given the relative cost of distributing a physical CD. Consumers need to stop being such suckers. A valid cost per song is probably about 15 or 20 cents. To boot, at that rate piracy would be neglible or relatively so.