The great Napster Con!

Totally unrelated ramblings but I am very cross! Don't get caught in the Great Napster Con! I am trying to find a simple website for purchasing and downloading music. I don't want to sign up for £50/month for the next 300 years, I don't want to install 500MB of fancy software onto my computer that will organise, categorise and even mood arrange all my music, I don't want to have to download music as outdated WMA files that are no use to me and then spend hours conveerting them to intelligent MP3 files - I SIMPLY WANT TO PAY TO DOWNLOAD MP3 SONGS THAT I WANT!! Is that too much to ask in these days - apparently so.

I have used Napster light before and it seemed to work, (except that you have to convert songs from WMA to MP3 and that it is a nightmare to get the songs off from your fancy bit of software to a simple file format on the desktop), so I thought I would sign up to a free 7 day trial for Napster unlimited where you can download as many songs as you like for free. After the 7 day trial it will cost £9.99 per month. The very first song I downloaded I had to pay 79p for! Apparently some you do have to pay - so says the little man in India who I couldn't understand a word of; in fact, it sounded more like 'some song do have pay' ... but I got the gist after 3 times of asking.

Needless to say, my 'free' trial has been cancelled and I have removed Napster and all traces of it from my laptop. Now if anyone can tell me where I can buy the songs I want at a reasonable price and download them as simple MP3 files - I'd be very grateful to hear from you.