Free Music At Napster... Again

I almost never go to a music store any more. Most of my music purchases are online track by track. Until now I have pretty much stayed away from Napster but not any more.

Recently Napster started advertising that you can listen to complete tracks for free. My first thought was, hey, wasn't that how they got into trouble in the first place? It turns out that this time it is legal and for people like me that love to listen but are very selective about what we buy, Napster's new marketing strategy may be a great new option for music lovers of all kinds.

Now, without even subscribing to the Napster service you can listen to any song in their millions of tracks for free in its entirety. I have always found the little thirty second preview from most of the music sites to be less than adequate. Especially when dealing with longer, classical pieces of music. With this new free play plan you can listen to any song up to five times before having to buy it. If you like the song enough to buy it it can be downloaded to your hard drive for just ninety nine cents.

For music lovers that have widely varying tastes or for people that simply don't know what they like this new option sounds like a great, and possibly long overdue, upgrade to the music download industry.