I’ve used lala.com’s CD trading service off and on ever since they bought WOXY.com. They seem to have a new business model; store your music in “the cloud”. Their new website design has a music player built-in (flash) and a little program that you can run on your pc to tell them which songs you already have. Then you can listen to your music collection from any place with an internet connection and a flash-capable web browser. You can listen to any song once for free and if you like it they want ten cents for you to listen to it online again. If you want to download it (as an mp3 thankfully) then it’s a very reasonable 89 cents.
So far it seems like a pretty cool idea.. one that might take off if Apple lets their iPhone application into iTunes App Store.
I just bought new DJ/Rapture album (downloaded as an mp3) for about $2 cheaper than amazon had it. Their little download/upload application is grabbing it right now.