Music, the good stuff
Music is one of the most important facets of my life. I don’t know if it’s possible to write a good novel without great music playing in the background to help oil the wheels of inspiration… I seriously doubt it. There are many places to find great music, but by far, one of my favourites is magnatune.com which has always amused me with its slogan “We are not evil”. They allow you to select the price you want to pay for an album, from a paltry minimum (i think still 5 dollars) upwards per album. Relying on the concience of consumers to pay a fair rate for the music they download, I can not but admire magnatune.com for facilitating greater consumer choice. Amen to that!
I discovered it when I was in Malaysia and using linux. Magnatunes came as the default store for Amarok music player, which I still consider to be the greatest music player on the planet. I miss it deeply, especially since I don’t currently have any active linux boxes. I implore you to try a KDE flavor of linux once in your life just to get a shot of Amarok, it’s awesome. Look for it in netbooks too. 
Music is a thing that helps the wheels of industry turn when a writer is banging out new copy. some of the great artists that have been added to my soundscape recently through magnatune and similar sites – include, Falik, Solace & Mars Lasar.
