Now, here's a site I'm sure some of you will have heard of:
Magnatune.
It's worth reading how and why this site exists, as its business model differs from that of a major market dominator like iTunes:
Magnatune ... the info.
In short, there's a lot of music up for grabs there. And get this: you can hear it all for free. Every second of every track can be played through their online media player, or through your chosen media player on your computer. Great, huh?
But it gets better.
You can actually download everything for free, too! And it's not illegal - the site owners encourage it. They work on the basis that once you've gone to the trouble of downloading and decided you like what you hear, you'll come back and pay. How trusting is that? You can even pay as little as $5 for a CD if that's all you think it's worth. Or you can choose to have it burned to CD for you and mailed out.
Now, it's not quite as easy as it used to be to grab tracks from this site. There's a method you need to follow, and it goes like this:
1) From the list of available recordings, select the one you want.
2) You'll see a link in blue to 'play hifi' - click on this.
3) The music begins playing in an embedded Flash player ... but look further down the page and you'll see this wording:
Optional: if the Flash mp3 player above doesn't work for you, you can play this album as an m3u audio stream (or xspf)4) EVEN IF THE FLASH PLAYER IS PLAYING FOR YOU, click on the words, ' ... m3u audio stream ... ' - this launches your default media player.
5) Use whatever method is available to you in your media player to 'Save as ... ' (in WMP, it's simply File\Save As ...), and select a desired destination folder on your computer.
6) Click 'Save', and you'll be saving the track you're listening to as fast as it buffers into your media player. Once it's saved to your hard disk drive, seek to the end of the playing track and repeat steps 5 and 6 as each successive track begins playing.
That's really all there is to it.
NB: You'll note that downloading in this way gives you a voiceover at the end of each track, telling you what you just heard and giving you the Magnatune URL. Use an MP3 cutter program, and you can simply remove this. Of course, the idea is that you won't steal the music but pay for it ... so make sure you do! 
