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Amazon, the gigantic shopping website, already has a compendium of more than a million CDs. As if that is not enough, it has expanded with a digital music store, Amazon MP3.

With more than two million songs by 180,000 artists, Amazon MP3 has one of the largest collections of DRM-free MP3 music downloads on the planet. The songs represent more than 20,000 labels, from start-up companies to the avant-garde. Participating indie labels include Righteous Babe Records, Sanctuary Records, Trojan Records, Sugar Hill Records, and Alligator Records.

When the online store launched in September 2007, the fact that top independent labels put out their music as DRM-free MP3s was surprising. The event marked the first time companies agreed to sell their music without constricting access control technologies.

Such MP3s let listeners enjoy music using any hardware, as they are stripped of digital rights management (DRM) software. As a result, customers can listen to them with just about anything iPods, PCs, Macs, Zunes, iPhones, RAZRs, etc. Also, Amazon MP3 songs come in small file sizes that — at 256 kilobits per second — still have high audio quality.

Half of the digital music store’s offerings are priced at just 89 cents a song, including the bestselling ones. Albums cost as cheap as $4.99, with the top ones no more expensive than $8.99.

Still, in affordability, Amazon’s offering has nothing on online piracy’s. But this is all about music gotten fairly. This is crme de la crme music that plays like ear candy, not because of high audio quality, but because one listens to it with a clear conscience.

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