I was an emusic member for over a year, it was great. I ended my account awhile back, and it looks like many people are about to do the same.
eMusic, having been acquired by Dimensional Associates LLC, has eliminated its all-you-can-download plan (the only thing that made the service worth the $10 a month), in favor of a 40-download-a-month plan, with a “premium” $15 plan that gets you 60 tracks a month. The whole point of digital music is the risk-free grazing — downloading things on the chance that you’ll like them, downloading songs for an occassion (such as Christmas songs, or the time I made my Dad a three-CD set of different versions of “Stormy Weather”), and other forms of no-risk, all-you-can-eat entertainment. Well, eMusic was fun while it lasted. Bye. (full story)
To put it in perspective: for $10 you could have downloaded the entire Matador Records catalog. Tell me something better than that, and I’ll shine your shoes. Unfortunately, this deal is now gone.