Top 5 things I hate about music and youtube.

[Quinlan]

iTunes actually does sell alright quality music, and have definitely improved over the years. They used to supply music at a bitrate of 128kb/s for most music (that priced at $0.99), with the rare exceptions of the "DRM-free music" (encoded at 256kb/s), but that's since changed to mostly all 256kb/s for music. That's not bad, and quite good compared to YouTube (somewhere around 56kb/s), but still not very good and nowhere near CD-quality of ~1400kb/s (disregarding most every other quality of music files).