Bought my very first MP3 on Amazon.

  I  was prepared to use pymazon[1].  To my surprise, it was not needed.
  Maybe because I downloaded a single track rather than a whole album.

  Everything went fine. The only downside is that MP3s don't fit into my
  OGG/Vorbis ecosystem. I don't know yet how to solve that problem.  Re-
  encode and store the original MP3s at a safe place? Hum.

  (Yes, I'm a fanboy of free audio formats. I want to be sure that I can
  still play them in 10 years.)


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  Okay,  let's  just  try it. Downloaded a whole album. Yes, this time I
  was forced to use an external downloader. However, I was handed a .amz
  file which I could load into pymazon and that's it.

  This is certainly a lot easier than I expected.

  I  don't  know  what  to  think  about  this. Amazon surely has a "bad
  image". But it's very comfortable to buy  stuff  there.  And  now,  it
  turned out that buying MP3s is easy, too. Plus, it's a lot cheaper.

  This is *very* tempting.


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  I  have  to  get  used to this, though. It feels very strange that the
  only thing I get for my money is  a  *file*.  There  is  no  "implicit
  backup":  I  can  re-rip  my CDs if my hard drive crashes. But I can't
  download that file again!

  (I do have backups of my music on several hard  discs  and  a  microSD
  card, but still...)

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  1. http://code.google.com/p/pymazon/