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Ah, the modern age…  Who would have believed, even through most of the last century, that the same device we use to contact friends or business associates could also be used to provide us with our favorite music.  Yet, most new cell phones can do just that, especially the mobile phones carried by younger people.

And, of course, in the major portion of the 20th century, nobody would have envisioned the Internet.  Furthermore, as late as the early part of the last decade of the twentieth century, our current Internet speed would have seemed more of a distant hope than a short term reality.  Wrong!  Ten years later the majority of us are connect to broadband services.  Streaming music to our desktops is no longer interrupted by frequent pauses to resupply the buffer of our memory.

The Napster people had something of a rocky start as the location where music fans could find each other and, using Napster's amazing technology, exchange their music files over the Internet.  No money ever changed hands.  It was a bit like selling bootleg compact discs except that nobody made any income from it.  In fact it was the free part of the model that angered the recording artists and record labels.  Eventually Napster settled with the recording industry, with a huge financial settlement at Napster's expense.  They learned their lesson well enough to completely change their business model.

Napster, the same company that started as just a vehicle for peer-to-peer music exchanges, has now become the owner of the largest music catalog on the Internet, with over seven million titles.  It is still a terrific bargain, even though it is no longer free in the days when it was in hot water with the music industry.  The site provides what is widely regarded as the greatest bargain for music fans with a three month introductory subscription, with renewals at the same low rates.  Three months will give you a good sense of what the service has to offer, and I strongly suspect that you'll decide to renew.  A lot of people have maintained a membership for years.

For a remarkably low price, you receive five download credits and special bonus download credits as a subscription bonus.  You also get unlimited streaming audio, which, believe me is great!  You can listen to the entire catalogs of your favorite artists or, if you prefer, entire albums of a variety of artists.  There are also over a thousand interactive, genre playlists.  There are streaming radio stations, too.

The downloads you choose can be played on any MP3 compatible device, including Ipod, Zune and many others.  A lot of newer cell phones have built in MP3 players and sufficient memory to hold a number of your favorite selections, as well.

You have unrestricted rights to these recordings, so you can move them around to different devices that you own.  You can even use your software to create your own compact disc.

There is a huge list of musical genres.  I'm sure you'll find your favorite on the list, unless you are like me and listen to music from a wide variety of genres.  Among those genres are rock, pop, classical, R&B, musical soundtracks, Christian, jazz, comedy, and the list goes on.

You can surround yourself with your own selected music and never repeat a song for three months for only fifteen dollars at Napster.com.  Face it, that's cheaper than a fast food lunch for three.