This year, one of my New Year’s resolutions was to legalise my music collection. Since writing that post I haven’t given it much thought. Now, with only a couple of months left in 2009, I’ve given some serious thought to how I might go about achieving this. This renewed thought was, in part, prompted by the realisation that my music collection has remained largely unchanged since I left university. It is time to discover new things and time to legitimise the collection I do have.

The digital music industry has come a long way in the last couple of years and there are now several different legal options for obtaining music. The industry is still evolving, but there are two main approaches to downloading music; the subscription model, and the pay per track model. I decided that now was as good a time as any to take a look at some of the main options and decide how best to go about bringing my music collection into the world of legitimacy.

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