Take THAT DRM!

I know I'm a little late to the party on this (had a very busy weekend at work, then Sunday after spending a few hours at work in the wee early hours to be sure the show didn't need anything from me, spent most of the rest of the day working in the yard), but I'm pretty excited about iTunes offering DRM free songs, and the fact that it looks like they're letting all the labels to choose to offer songs DRM free on iTunes.  This should spell the beginning of the end of DRM for digital music at least I certainly hope so.  I'm also pretty excited about the oft-overlooked addition that these tracks will be encoded at a much higher bit-rate than the standard songs on iTunes.  I'd prefer the option to download lossless tracks, but I'll take what I can get.  I don't really mind the slight price-hike as I perceive it will be a temporary thing and I've often said I'd pay a little extra to get higher quality tracks.
I'll still probably get most of my music on CD (because of the slightly higher quality) or from eMusic (because it's great and cheap), but this makes it much more likely I'll occasionally buy stuff on iTunes more often than I do now.
Of course just today I was taking a survey from eMusic and they asked what feature I'd like most added to it, and I completely forgot to say I'd LOVE to have the option to get lossless tracks.  Completely slipped my mind.  Damn.  Oh well!