I’ve been having a lot of fun on Blip.fm lately.  It’s interesting to see how new music services eat into the time you used to spend on others.  Blip.fm has directly taken up time I used to spend on Hypem.com.  Neither of these effect the time I spend in iTunes or Last.fm.

It appears Blip and Hypem are cleverly skirting the legal issues with listening to music on demand.  Both are strong products for discovering new music, and surprisingly they encourage me to buy more music than the clearly legal iTunes and Last.fm products.  The labels have waged war on previous free on demand music services.  Maybe I’m in the minority, but the free services haven’t taken the place of legitimate buying for me.  They have taken the place of radio, where I used to discover music to buy.