I see where eMusic is offering a free 14-day trial in which you can get up to 25 free songs.
Before I go any further, I need to say that I'm almost certain that eMusic deals exclusively with
indie music or new artists with new music (for the sake of brevity, I'm just going to use the word "indie."). Now, that's not necessarily bad--I've heard a few indies that I thought were quite good--I think that the artists are definitely up-and-comers, headed for stardom or at least to have a large, solid following. The problem with indies is, to me, that you have to listen to a lot of duds before you come up with a really good song (I'm trying to think of an apt analogy, but one escapes me at this moment).
The reason that I know that is that eMusic does, or at least used to, offer a free indie or "new music" piece everyday. I listened to almost every one. However, I got disgusted with eMusic quite some time back because they had an excessive amount of glitches of different kinds. I cut them loose, as far as posting their daily free downloads was concerned, but continued to check them for myself; I downloaded a lot of them--many of them just marginally enjoyable but ones that I thought might "grow on me" over time. The reason that I suggested that eMusic "at least used to offer a free indie piece everyday" is that they apparently haven't posted one in the last two or three days.
Now, back to the free trial offer and other facts about their plans. Plans start at $6.49, following your 14-day free trial. With each plan level, you get a certain number of free pieces of music. You can buy more for only 49 cents each. They claim that their prices end up being "up to" 50% off iTunes, Google Play, or Amazon. EMusic claims a catalog of over 23 million songs.
Here's something that could be either a positive or a negative, or a little of both. All of your music will be stored in the cloud, and eMusic says that the cloud storage is free and unlimited. I don't suppose that you can put the recipes from your aunt Mary and your spreadsheets from work in this cloud, or to use it to back up your 500 gb computer hard drive, but only to store the music that you've gotten from eMusic.
Frankly, this is not of interest to me. Mainly because I want to hear music that has already become popular; I don't want to hear a bunch of indies, when most of them aren't going to be any good. But that's just me. The MobileReader bunch is an eclectic crowd, and I post this in case there are people who do not feel the way that I do about indie music, and so this company's offers might be of interest to you.
eMusic.com.