Everyone should go now to the Rabbit Room and purchase Ben Shive's album. It is incredibly stupendous, and you will agree or you will be dead by October.

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

Today, for the first time ever, I paid money for a music download.

I've resisted until now because I still see downloading music from iTunes as paying too much money for an inferior product. For $10 you get music that is lower quality than a CD and comes with DRM that prevents you from using it however you want. My case has only been made stronger by the fact that Amazon, to compete with iTunes, now offers most new CDs for $9.99 (my new Beck CD is on the way as I write this).

But this morning I saw a deal I could not pass up. Rhapsody was offering The Complete Led Zeppelin for $9.99. That's every studio recording and every official live album for $9.99. Plus, the downloads are 256kbps mp3 files with no DRM.

How could I not buy this?

The link for the product was here, but it no longer goes to The Complete Led Zeppelin. In fact, I don't see that offer anywhere on the site anymore, which means it was either a very limited offer or a mistake. Either way, I now legally own Led Zeppelin's complete catalog and I'm only $9.99 poorer for it.

By the way, I found out about this offer through www.passwird.com, a great way to find Internet deals.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have some Zeppelin to listen to.