Last.fm announces subscription service
[Last.fm](http://www.last.fm/ “Last.fm – The Social Music Revolution”) lets you choose an artist or tag and play music in a streamed fashion just like a radio station would only you have a large choice of what to play from since you can start with any artist or tag you like.
Today they announced that from the website you can play full-length tracks of your choosing a few times and after that you can pay for a subscription. Another subscription service but this one also offers independent artists a chance to share their music and get paid for it also. [Here is the last.fm blog post.](http://blog.last.fm/2008/01/23/free-the-music “Last.fm – the Blog · Free the Music”)
As usual with legal agreements with the big labels, this hasn’t rolled out in most of the world yet.. And if it’s anything like the [Apple iTunes](http://www.apple.com/itunes/ “Apple – iPod + iTunes”) movie sales I won’t be expecting it in Canada sometime soon.