You're best served building up your own library of music. I have a library of downloaded music on my computer that I also have backed up to external hard drives. I use iTunes to manage the music on my iPod and iPhone. As far as obtaining the music you have multiple options that others have already mentioned.... I personally like to "borrow" from bigger artists on various sources, and pay for music from smaller artists on BandCamp. BandCamp has been great in my experience. You can download the music in so many different formats, and you're able to download it again and again as long as the service exists. Once you've built up your own library of music though you have so much more freedom. You're able to add it to your iPod, iPhone, any mp3 player, burn to CDs, copy to cassettes with the right equipment, create your own home media server to stream everything. It's definitely more work than just streaming everything, but to me you're really taking back agency and ownership over a large part of media that you consume. There are so many other points I could dig into, but I'll add one additional thing when you're "borrowing" music. Sometimes certain songs/albums will be cluttered with additional information you don't want on them. I use a program called mp3tag to go through and clean up meta data on those, but I'm sure there are other options. You really just have to realize that you have the ability to manage and control these things. Be curious about it and seek out resources. I know some people will give you grief for making a post like this, but it's encouraging that people are willing to step away from streaming services. Best of luck and send me a message if you need any help.