Music is a giant 5-letter word. Music means joy, it means sorrow, it is love, and it is pain, it is food for the soul. You want to listen to music no matter where you are � in your car, at a favorite coffee shop or a club. Everyone has their own choice of music that they like. Some find rock or heavy metal cool, some prefer rap or hip-hop, while others may love sonnets and classical.

There are numerous ways to get your favorite music � you can buy CDs or DVDs at a store, you can listen to it at a club or on your favorite radio channel, or you can download music from the internet. Buying it off the shelf and stacking all those CDs takes a lot of money, space and maintenance. Listening to your favorite music at clubs or on the radio is not a good option because you cannot choose when and what you want to hear.

Downloading music is the latest trend that gives you access to loads of music. And you can save it to your computer or IPod, burn it to a CD, play it in your car, do whatever you want with it. You can even listen to internet radio.

You want to get better grades next semester. In order to study harder and more efficiently, you will want to download some classic tunes to study by. It has been proven that while listening to Mozart, babies develop more brain cells faster. So why would it be any different for adults? Fill up your portable music player with Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky so you can make the Dean�s list, if not the President�s list next semester.

To become thin. Yes, you read it right! To become thin. You can download some fast numbers to use during your workout routine. You move them to your IPod and use it while you go jogging. You enjoy yourself while you lose fat and become thin.

Paying members have the ability to download songs with their membership plan. The song can be uploaded to your computer, and then on to another device if you so choose. They are not a song sharing site, however, as you cannot upload songs to them. They have exclusive licenses with artists and record labels to sell the music.

With the radio and video features, you have the ability to rate the song or video. Your rating will determine how often Yahoo! music plays that song or artist for you in the future while you are in random play mode.

There is also the ability to skip. A skip is if you are listening in random mode and don�t like a song, you can skip it and move to the next one. Free members can skip up to five songs or videos during their random play period. Paid subscribers have unlimited skip possibilities with both.

To download music for your listening enjoyment is to play it smart. And with the process being so easy as choosing a site, making a few clicks and downloading it instantly, what can go wrong? You�ll lose weight; you�ll be smarter and stay out of debt longer! Who could resist all of those great options?