Johnny cash downloads
Napster is singing a new tune
Nothing ever really dies on the Internet. Thus Napster, former bad boy of free music downloading, has been reborn as Napster to Go, a legal music subscription service. For $14.95 a month, you get unlimited downloads of hits from artists as varied as Gwen Stefani and Johnny Cash. Sounds like a bargain compared with iTunes' 99 cents a song or even Wal-Mart's 88 cents, right? The catch is that all songs downloaded from Napster become unplayable if you stop paying the monthly fee. So much for paying $15 once to fill your MP3 player. (Nonsubscribers can pay a buck a tune and keep it forever.) A bigger problem: Napster to Go songs aren't compatible with an iPod, by far the most popular digital music player. Since the Apple gadgets don't play its tunes, Napster to Go could soon be going, going, gone.
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