I've been waiting for Apple to add more good content to the iTunes Plus store. As far as I can tell, they haven't. Instead' they've been screwing people over by bricking their iPhones, locking their iPods down, and just generally being monopolistic assholes. Maybe it is a good thing they're not big like Microsoft. They could actually be worse.

Anyway, after all that waiting with nothing to show for it, Amazon finally saved the day. They opened Amazon MP3. It is awesome. All DRM-free music encoded at 256kbps VBR. It just sounds really good, costs less than the exact same content over on Apple's store, and integrates into iTunes and Windows Media Player easily.

I wish Amazon a lot of success and hope they land more deals with more labels. It is about time somebody came along and gave Apple some real competition. They've been kind of stagnating and marinating in their own success a little too long.