If you’re not afraid of the Unix command line, you could do this with the Cat command. Just type cat mp3-1-name.mp3 mp3-2-name.mp3 mp3-3-name.mp3 > joined-songs.mp3.

For instance, I typed “cat” in my Terminal, and dragged three files from my iTunes Music folder in to the Terminal window, and followed with the > pipe and specified ~/Desktop (“~/” is Unix shorthand for your “Home folder”) and the file went to the Desktop with the name I specified

recently wrote a guide explaining how to convert .ra files to mp3 using only open source software (mplayer and lame) on windows.

The instructions in the article are really easy to follow – in fact, they deserve to be inscribed in stone for the benefit of humankind (and the puzzlement of future archaeologists).

Replace mp3-*-name.mp3 with the names of your songs (using Terminal, you can just drag and drop the file/names to Terminal and it’ll add the name/path). The “>” is the output pipe, and the “joined-songs.mp3″ would be the resulting name. You can change this to whatever name you want.

Yoko Kanno`s Cowboy Bebop soundtracks are great, too. “Tank“, “Real Folk Blues“, “Green Bird“….

Oh, another good video game soundtrack: Secret of Mana, though you can only get it in Japanese these days. (http://www.gamemusic.com)

Hey, Harry-Gregson Williams! He composed the music to Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. The latter was better than the former, and was actually very good, though I don`t have the soundtrack.

And what the heck am I supposed to do with them now? Burn them? Pass them on to someone who wouldn’t otherwise know about them? $90 pissed away, and now I have to spend another $180 to give the artists the tribute they deserve.