Well, unless you have been hiding in a cave, you know by now that Yahoo! launched it’s digital-music store yesterday. Of course, you can download songs for $0.99 — just like iTunes — but more importantly, you can sign up for a subscription service for $60/year. Yahoo! calls their subscription service “Yahoo! Unlimited”:1.

Lemme see… over 1 million songs, less than $5/month, all you can eat, plays on your PC and a bunch of other _Plays for Sure_ “devices”:2, offers sharing and personalization and lets you stream all the music you want before downloading. Come on… $60/year is less than four CDs. It’s so cheap that even if you have an iPod, love iTunes, think Steve Jobs should be “czar”:3 and still use your 8-track tape player, you should subscribe just because it’s so cheap. Yeah, I stole the 8-track reference from Ian Rogers’ — a Yahoo! Music developer — “post”:6, but more on this later.

I’ll be posting more about my adventures with Yahoo! Unlimited in the future, but for now all I have to say is *Yahoo!*.

P.S. Real Networks (”RNWK”:4) down about $2 to $5.24 today.

P.S.S. Napster (”NAPS”:5) down over $2 to $3.95 today.

[6(Ian Rogers a Yahoo! Music store co-creator post on why Yahoo! Music is or isnt for you)]http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-FDuiCSg4eqinB8z.GGJ7TmAz?p=89&.login=1

[5(NAPS stock quote page)]http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=NAPS&t=5d

[4(RNWK stock quote page)]http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=RNWK&t=5d

[3(Steve Jobs as Lenin?)]http://gigaom.com/2005/05/03/steve-jobs-lenin/

[2(Plays for Sure, dude)]http://www.playsforsure.com/AdvancedSearchResults.aspx?searchtype=Advanced&subscription=true

[1(Read about Yahoo! Unlimited)]http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/