“Piracy, the better choice!”

your Microsoft based operating systen will get the hickups in october?

No problem! (If you used [for example] TPB and one of the trusted uploaders [those with the green skull next to their name] to get your music, that is of course!)
While all your honestly payed Yahoo music is just datagarbage when that happends the “better choice”-supplied files can still be played.
And if you lose the files themself that’s also no problem!
Normaly you can just redownload “better choice”-offerings without any hastle or having to pay for a second time for stuff you already payed once! (you did send those innovative artist whose music you had downloaded some money via his “paypal donation for the download”-account he had setup, didn’t you?)

Note that this redownload option will not work if you are a fan (who is?) of Indiana Gregg and her nearly half dozend myspace pages in: the world [indianagregg], canada[indianagreggcanada] germany[indianagregggermany], sweden[...], france[...] and bunny land [savebunny]!
Her torrent is deadly then the yahoo store!
So if you are one of the alleged
-but in no way with evidence proven-
250000 guys that have her album allegedly downloaded then you are out of luck when you lose it!
No redownload possible in that specific case!

P.S.
Oh and the suggestion of Yahoo to burn a CD of the songs and rerip that CD into some more friendly stuff like MP3, so that the songs don’t turn into datagarbage in October: THAT is the worst suggestion ever! When you do that you get quality (due to the fact that when you burn a CD out of the lossy DRM-WMA files in the first place you don’t get CDDA quality with that selfburned CD in contrast to a genuine industry-pressed CD) with those re-ripped files that is even worse then if you would tape the songs from AM radio!

The moral of yet another story of a DRM shop that closes the same is: If you must support those evil 4 terrorist in the first place, then at least be so smart and by physical CD’s. Those you can RIP without loss of quality into FLAC and then you can transcode those into lossy mp3, wma or whatever your portable player eats, anytime you want to. Do not pay for DRM-Datagarbage if you want to be considered smart in your peergroup!

You mean ‘Rent’ not buy.
The label stores say stuff like “own your copy” , “Buy yours today” .. but
fail to mention it’s really like renting. In their eyes it’s NEVER really yours,
even CD purchases.