Any Universal license holder -- a music site that has been given permission to post song samples, for example -- can go to Loudeye and get the music delivered in any digital format, including Windows Media or QuickTime.

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The four-hour event ended with everyone holding hands and singing a song with the lyrics "You have to go through a thunderstorm to see a rainbow"--a reference to the dot-com bust and the dark days of the SARS virus scare as Taobao launched in mid-2003.

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Yes, YouTube is the go-to place for folks who just want to listen to that one song they heard at that show by that band that they kinda like.

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Unless you're burning from downloaded (perhaps pirated) songs, you'll have to go through the process of transforming CD song files into MP3s and then burning them onto CD-R or CD-RW disks.

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