EDVANTASIA said:
Get Emusic immediately. I signed up last month and love it, although I shot my load in a day(90 songs go quickly) I can't recommend this site enough. They got CD's by Rage, Avian, both Pyramaze, Avian,Rhapsody,Jorn,Beyond Twilight,Evergrey and many many more.
I went and just signed up tonight (went for the $20/90 downloads/month plan). I actually ran across your profile to see what you grabbed (I am SkiBumMSP on eMusic just like on here - btw that Beyond Twilight friggan kicks ass!).
However, I am not to impressed with the searching capabilities. I really wish they had something like allofmp3.com with the "those that got this album also downloaded these albums) as well as the "similiar artists" need to be beefed up. Also, I wish they would break down the genres more finely. For example, they lump all the "metal" together. Much like allofmp3.com, I wish they would have broken the sub-genre's down at least one more level, i.e., power metal, black metal, death metel, and so forth. I started to search user profiles that have downloaded the same albums that I have found and see what else they have gotten. For example, I've managed to grab Metalium's Chapter One and Chapter Two albums (they don't have Chapter Three - can't figure that one out), since I've already had Chapter's Four and Five) I went and looked to see who else downloaded those same albums and see what they got. I may have to see if they have a feedback section and submit the above ideas to them.
Anyway, after some digging around, I did find some good stuff, although not nearly what I can find on allofmp3.com (for example, no Brainstorm, but allofmp3.com has it).
However, unlike allofmp3.com, which is very questionalble when it comes to legitimacy, at least eMusic is a fully legitimate, legal site for aquiring music. I got a two-week trial period where I was able to get 50 free MP3s (thanks to that winamp offer). I still got 25 downloads to go, so I'll play around with it a bit more.
EDIT: I just used up my 50 free downloads (now I know what you mean by burning through them in a day!). I definitly found enough to want to at least continue for a month or two (I lined up at least 5 albums just in the past hour or so that I want to get. For example, Anubis Gate is just friggan unreal - definitly some sweet sounding prog-power that I want to get, but ran out of downloads!