Only two things I've noticed get worse as a buyer so far:

- Virtually immediately following the Songtrader acquisition using the credit card checkout began giving 'security code mismatch' errors. This is a false positive and clicking the 'Complete purchase' button about a minute later is the workaround I've been using since. I'd never experienced the error in the years prior and this has been tried with multiple different cards.

- There's no longer a live ticker on the home page showing the latest track/album purchases around the world.