AOL Announces Acquisition of MusicNow

America Online Unveils Next Generation, Web-based, Full-Service, Digital Music Store – Including Subscription, Portable Subscription, and a La Carte Purchases. Preview Available Now at AOLMusicNow.com

This is good, and competitive to iTunes. Though, realistically, iTunes has more marketshare and more opt-in users with iPods; this does offer people with that Microsoft “PlaysForSure” crap an option to use this service. This is a pretty cool service, for the same price as iTunes and integrates with your AOL/AIM login. I wish they had a PayPal option, but heh, I guess its okay as it is. This service is better than MusicNet that AOL has been offering for a while now. Glad to see some more progress.