According to
wikipedia, Rhapsody has been decreasing the amount of sample-able stuff and making more of it pay-only. I didn't realize that you could burn non-DRM'd cd's for 89 cents a track but that's still not attractive, and I would not give 89 cents to this despicable DRM industry any more than I'd give it to Osama.
Really, if you want to try out cool, non-top-40 music, check out
Magnatune.com. They have a few hundred cd's (ok, not the widest selection in the world, but the quality is quite good), there is no DRM on ANYTHING, you are allowed and encouraged to give copies of your downloads to your friends, and you can listen to and download every track on the site for free (mp3 128k format with a voice blurb at the end; paid downloads are available as lossless WAV/FLAC). This is the only record label I buy anything from. I haven't even bought any RIAA CD's in about 5 years. (I do buy occasional indie cd's recorded by personal acquaintances).
Plus, there's infinite amounts of completely gratis music like at
http://etree.org (mostly live recordings) and other such places.