The only way I know of is burning a cd and then reripping it. I'm sure if you looked around you could find a program that strips the copy protection (illegal). I haven't seen one though.
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It indeed sucks! .mp3 is good (LAME vbr encoded that is), however for lossy I lean more towards .mpc and .ogg since they have gapless playback.
I don't buy any DRM'd music because many years ago after buying just one .wma and after a disk format I could no longer play the file. I also don't use .wma or any other audio codec that may accidentally have DRM enabled.
The whole DRM thing is a reason to just go to a record store and buy the audio CD (which under current terms means you don't actually own the audio CD, you have only purchased a license to use it an unlimited amount of times). I also stay away from copy-protected/copy-damaged audio CD's which is just more DRM b.s.
Be careful when talking about DRM'd music and ways of circumventing it because if someone feels their intellectual property rights are being abused they can and very well may sue people.
Even if you own the music you downloaded, if the file is DRM'd its illegal to circumvent the protection because of the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) which is a very stupid law.
.wma and any format which uses DRM should be strongly avoided.
You supposedly can convert it by burning it to a Audio CD in Windows Media Player, then rip them back to mp3, or even better ogg vorbis.