It's got most of the music that I want, including some Paul Bley albums that are either unobtainable or very expensive on eBay or Amazon Marketplace. It has a live album by the Simple Acoustic Trio that I hadn't even heard of before and that's available absolutely nowhere else. I'm very impressed. I might have to move to the States so that I can keep the Simple Acoustic Trio tracks.

Actually, I'm not really in the market for a music subscription service. I like to order CDs online, savour the anticipation while waiting for them to be delivered, rip them to AAC, so that I can have the music with me when I'm out and about and -- this is so last century -- play them on an actual CD player when I'm at home.

While I loathe and abominate "jewel" cases, the requirement of physical storage the CDs acts as a useful brake on my tendency to buy more stuff than I can mentally keep track of.

All the same, I might find Rhapsody very tempting if it were available here. I like it a lot better than I would have expected.

Edit: "absolutely nowhere else", huh? It just suddenly crossed my mind to check iTunes. It turns out I don't have to move to the States after all. I'm just about to make my first iTunes purchase for 2.5 years.