Ahh ok - I didn't realise that you'd gone through the LW store Sorry if I alarmed you, heaps of people get scammed into paying for all kinds of bogus things.

The LW store lets you download certain artists that have signed up with LW & allowed their songs to be legally downloaded for a fee. You don't have to sign up with the LW store to download music - you can download whatever you want through the LW program... it's just that LW store downloads are paid for whereas other files downloaded from LW might breach copyright laws.

It all depends on how much the legality concerns you! If you want to use the LW store continuously then I guess you'll have to keep paying (I've never used the store so I really am not sure). If you want to download files from the Gnutella network (where other users share files for you to download & you let other people download files from you) then just use LW's search option