music everywhere

Who's your desert island musician? Your single album? Although it's painful to have to choose, I'd have to go the The Goldberg Variations played by Glenn Gould. The version from early in his career, when he was playing with manic energy and barely controlled passion.

There's music everywhere online. I'm a regular Metafilter reader, and came across this link of favorite songs from their interesting and culturally diverse members:
http://ask.metafilter.com/112531/So-youre-listening-to-what

Step 1. Click link above and listen to the youtube links on the metafilter thread.

Step 2. If you love it, but want to try it out before buying, use G2P.org which is a simple search site based on inputing more advanced google search parameters to find music in open web directories (not everything is available).

Step 3. Use Firefox. click on the song title you're interested in. You should see quicktime (a thin grey bar) load in a new blank page. You can listen to make sure it's complete, then when it's fully loaded click on Tools menu then Page Info. Select the Media tab. It will show you what media is on the page. Click once on the one that says "embed". Usually it will have the title of the song. The select the Save As button at the bottom, and choose where to save it.

Step 4. Dissolve into your new favorite song.

Step 5. To purchase, use Amazon mp3 download. There's no DRM. That means you can buy a song or album and play it on any and all of your computers and mp3 devices, stereos, burn it to cd, etc.