Quote Originally Posted by PeruvianSkies
http://www.applematters.com/index.ph...ricing-scheme/
Ha! I was going to run down the math for the resident Microserf fan boy who prefers to rent his music, but I see somebody has already done it.

More and more, I buy CD's and rip them once, then never touch them. Into the closet they go, where they provide a cumbersome form of backup (redundant, I might add since I back up my hard drive based library). I think I’ll eventually miss the days where album art was a bigger deal. I hardly look at the jackets anymore.

With CD's running around $15, I might go for a few tracks via iTMS newer DRM-free 256kbps ACC format but, for the most part, the CD's not dead until I can buy lossless..or until SACD can be ripped.