Yes, I know all that downloaded music becomes useless once I stop paying the monthly fee. But how is that any different from the Netflix and HBO model? You stop paying your subscription, you lose access to the content. Makes sense to me.
If I really want to own something, I'll purchase it but I've collected so much music over the years, I'll never have time to listen to it all again. My music tastes has evolved over the years. I'll never again play those Kiss and Black Sabbath records I so ardently collected during the 1970s. Yet I purchased them then and they are useless to me now.
For $9.99 a month, I can delete and replace my music as my tastes continue to change. That's a pretty fair deal.
#7 I know all that downloaded music becomes useless once I stop paying the monthly fee.
I am sure there is a program that will either record what you are playing and save it as a regular mp3 or strip out the software that would stop you from keeping the songs.