I use this site all of the time because fo the low cost and the fast downloads. You get to pick the compression format you prefer and they have a ton of songs. Who cares if the site is in Russia? Most people don't even know where most servers are that they transact on anyway.

i really don't know of any cheaper similar sites, unless you want to use bit torrents which is cool but takes forever to get the downloads you want.

BTW- I can care less about all that copyright stuff or the record companies getting every penny of a royalty.
Before Napster i was getting a ton of music through the bulletin boards and MIRC. Who the heck wants to pay $15 for a CD of 15 songs and 10 of them are crappy?
Also spending $1 a song for a crippled Itune is complete nonsense. You have to be insane to spend $1 for a poor quality piece of data that restricts how u can use it. I would spend the $1 on a completely lossless format, that I have complete use of but your talking +20mb of pure CD quality.

I get a good chuckle when my Ipod using Itune loving friends gush about the product they use. They don't even realize they are getting ripped off 2x-once for the HD player and twice for the music. I have owned Apple stock for 3 years now so I really do get a good laugh out of it.