They are limiting my time to 40 hours a month... which is like nothing. 

 

This info makes me sad...

 

Your first option is to continue listening just as you have been and, if and when you reach the 40 hour limit in a given month, to pay just $0.99 for unlimited listening for the rest of that month. This isn't a subscription. You can pay by credit card and your card will be charged for just that one month. You'll be able to keep listening as much as you'd like for the remainder of the month. We hope this is relatively painless and affordable - the same price as a single song download.

 

Your second option is to upgrade to our premium version called Pandora One. Pandora One costs $36 per year. In addition to unlimited monthly listening and no advertising, Pandora One offers very high quality 192 Kbps streams, an elegant desktop application that eliminates the need for a browser, personalized skins for the Pandora player, and a number of other features: http://www.pandora.com/pandora_one.

Meh, Pandora used to be available to everyone, but stopped letting anyone outside of the USA use their service last year. So this really doesn't surprise me.

Slacker is made of win, switch to that.

Spotify is the best thing ever.

Spotify is the best thing ever.

 

Amen to that!

Well sell me.  Looks like I need a change. 

So wait... it's saying you can pay a dollar a month... but you have to keep paying monthly... or you can pay 36 dollars for the year?  That makes no sense.

It's not equivalent service for one price vs. the other.

I've been enjoying last.fm lately.  It's free.

 

And for anyone who is a classical music afficionado, Naxos Radio's subscription is only $10/year, which is Very affordable.  They have some Amazing stuff there.  Naxos is, I think, the largest producer of classical music and so thier subscription gets you a ton of channels based on anything they've ever released.  Some CDs even no longer available.

Demi's way of getting music:

 

step 1: Go to local library, one that features a music section

Step 2: rent 10 cd's (that's the maximum :( )

step 3: Go home, and rip those f*ckers

step 4: Enjoy!

Sadness! I'll have to check out some of these other sites. :(

It makes sense.  They were losing money with all the song rights, and also the digital rights people were breathing down their necks.  They had to have some way of further legitimizing it.  For a while there were talks that Pandora was going to have to close.  This is a way to stay open, and a pretty cheap one in my opinion.  It's only $12 a year if you go over 40 hours a month, and i'm not likely to do that as i'm more casual.  Although i don't listen to it at work like you do Empy.

Huh, just tried last.fm and it's not free. Thought it was and dl'd it but after a couple hours it closed down and told me to subscribe.