If you’ve had the misfortune of using BuyMusic.com’s download service, you’ve likely had an experience similar to mine.

I needed to learn the old Neil Young/ Buffalo Springfield song ‘Flying on the Ground is Wrong’ for a gig. Lacking a CD or LP copy, I decided to try to find a download of it on the web.

I have an eMusic account, and have never had a single problem with it. But eMusic didn’t have the original track, so I Googled it, and found that BuyMusic.com had the track for $.99. No problem. I paid a buck, checked out, downloaded their little download manager, and downloaded the track.

Right off the bat, something was wrong. It saved the file as a .wma file rather than an MP3, and never let me specify the format I wanted. But it got far worse almost immediately. (more…)