Obviously the music industry has changed thanks to napster and sites like this one. Buying by the song is definately the way to go. Unlike napster you can not buy a subscription for the whole year with unlimited downloads - unless I totally missed this. At first I had to hunt for a way to listen to the songs - I started to sign up for an account thinking you had to do that in order to hear the tunes - but the sign up asks for your credit card information right of the bat - didn't want to give that out yet! So you have to hunt a little for a way to listen to the songs.