after some discussion last month about downloads and the quality of mp3s versus other encoding rates, it was interesting to find out about zunior.com, a Canadian online music retailer which offers high quality mp3 as well as encoding in FLAC format.

i haven't bought any albums (some are available on emusic, which is cheaper) but i did create an account so i could download the free sampler/mixed disc on offer.

the site looks interesting in that 1) it's canadian, and the only other canadian site that offers music downloads, puretracks, has arcane drm/usage rules 2) it (purportedly) offers higher quality sound files 3) they also sell some guy maddin films for download, at about the cost of an album which is interesting (to me at least). worth a look, imo.