Why Magnatune is not evil Fantastic music: we work with artists directly, not with record labels, and all our music is hand-picked. On average, we accept 3% of submissions Perfect audio quality: our music is available in both lossless and smaller-size "lossy" formats Many audio formats: our albums can be download as WAV files, as well as super-high quality VBR MP3s, AAC, Apple Lossless (ALAC), and open source friendly FLAC, OGG and OPUS formats Creative Commons: members get access to all our music under a friendly license that enables sharing and reuse [more] Listen to everything: all our albums can be listened to in their entirety before you buy. Download everything: once you've paid, you can download anything from our entire catalog--no limits. Musicians get paid: 50% of your purchase price goes directly to the musician, not to labels and their lawyers Album art: every album includes high quality album art (in both Adobe Acrobat and 300DPI JPG formats) Give to your friends: We encourage you to give 3 copies of any music from your membership to your friends Artists direct: we sign contracts directly with musicians, so you can rest assured that we can legally license music to you, and no middlemen get in the way of the artist's royalties Podcast-legal: non-commercial podcasters can use our music for free No major labels: we have absolutely nothing to do with major labels, their lawyers or the RIAA Financially support Open Source: we financially support several open source projects such as Amarok and Rhythmbox No DRM: No copy protection (DRM), so you can do what you like with your music