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churchlarry View Drop Down
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    Posted: March 08 2010 at 15:55
Hi all!
   just thought I'd ask this. I sure would like to use Pandora or Rhapsody or some other service, but I don't use credit cards if I can help it. Does anyone know of a similar site that takes personal checks for their annual fee? I sure hope so!
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Points: 7264 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2010 at 10:34
Originally posted by churchlarry churchlarry wrote:

Hi all!
   just thought I'd ask this. I sure would like to use Pandora or Rhapsody or some other service, but I don't use credit cards if I can help it. Does anyone know of a similar site that takes personal checks for their annual fee? I sure hope so!

It's much more cost-effective to hang out with friends who have MASSIVE collections of prog CDs and just copy their stuff!  

CDs have better sound quality because they are not compressed, unlike downloaded MP3s.  

If you network properly, you'll have all the music you'll ever want/need.  And it's a great party!  Cheers....
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Points: 5195 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2010 at 10:52
^ properly encoded MP3s (high bitrates) are virtually identical to CDs as far as sound quality is concerned. However, most streaming applications (myspace, youtube etc) don't use high bitrates, and samples in download stores are usually 128kbps at most (as are the samples at Progarchives), and I fear that those are what many people base their opinion about MP3 on.

As far as the original topic is concerned: I don't know any download store that you could use without a credit card ... maybe Amazon?


Edited by Mr ProgFreak - March 15 2010 at 10:54
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Points: 2 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 29 2010 at 18:10
Thank you for the kind replies! I was told I could purchase a Visa gift card and use that. I think that will work! Thanks again!
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Points: 1327 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2010 at 05:38
see if you can borrow CDs from a library.
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