I’m sure by now you’ve heard the big announcement from Apple that iTunes will be DRM-free (digital rights management) by this April. While sites like AmazonMP3 have always had DRM-free music, this is truly exceptional news for you, as a consumer of music, and as an owner of cool gadgets that play your music, including

I admit I’m not exactly 21st century when it comes to buying music. I still buy CDs and rip them to my iTunes library when they arrive in the mail. I like to own the music I truly love and use it the way I want. That is why, when I do download (for those times