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I can't rave about this service enough.
I did lots of research on it before diving in and I haven't found a thing to stop me from using it.

The service is located in Moscow.
It is legal.
It is inexpensive (2-15 cents per song)
It is a pay-as-you-go service. You load up your account via MC/Visa.
Your MC/Visa card online payment is secure and goes to a Co. in the US which is authorized and certified by Mastercard and Visa.

Those are just the highlights. There is a free download of an offline Explorer application which requires about 30 seconds to learn to use.
I started my account with a $10 amount and I have been downloading tons of stuff. In reality I believe I have downloaded about 50 songs and my account is at about $4.
I found the entire J.Geils album "Love Stinks", downloaded all 17 songs and it cost me $1.40 for all the files in 128 Kb/sec bitrate. You can get up to 320 kb/sec but it costs about twice as much (big deal).

The price is so low because, I am told, of the exchange rate between USD and Rubels. In Moscow, the service costs folks about the same as iTunes costs us. But we here in the US get more bang for our buck.

It is legal. The RIAA has tried to sue them, enjoin them from operating and they petitioned the Russian authorities to shut them down.
The Russian authorities recently finished a lengthy investigation and finally told the RIAA...tough luck. No Russian laws are being broken, Allof MP3.com has a deal with major Euro record labels and...over there, according to their laws...the MP3 file format is not subject to the same intellectual property constraints as other media types.

This is all I can recall from memory. The upshot is...they've been around since 2001, no one yet that I can find any report of, has been subject to any hanky panky with regard to their credit card accounts and it is legal and has withstood several legal challenges.

I say, go for it. Try it out for 10 bucks, download the Explorer software and if you don't like it...dump it after you've spent you 10 bucks. I'm going to be a member for a log time. I've found some really obscure music that I thought I'd never find..."One Piece at a Time" by Johnny Cash...the live version of the album "Journey to The Centre of The Earth" by Rick Wakeman...the album "Guitarded" by Leslie West...the list goes on. I have the albums somewhere and didn't think I'd ever be able to listen to good copies ever again but now I have it in digital format.
I think I'll stop raving now. I'm sure some here will step in to poo poo the website or refute my claims...but it won't dissuade me.