Royalty free music that doesn't suck

I'm not a music composer (and I don't play one on TV) but I am someone who needs music for projects sometimes, mainly video modules for conference openers. The big problem is that, more often than not, my clients aren't willing to pay for an audio engineer/composer to do up a custom track for them. I know, in the big scheme of things, that this is cheaper than me sitting for hours/days sifting through websites with royalty free music but they see the price tag for custom work and freak out.
So, since Google will allow you to pay to up your placement in their searches, I am fed up with searching sites that suck and thought that, while it doesn't exactly have to do with fine Adobe products (of which I've purchased several [including Audition], spending many thousands of dollars over the years, for any Adobe personnel out there who might read this post and doesn't think it applies to this product), I thought I'd come to this forum and ask you people directly if you know of any sites with RFM that don't suck. You know what I mean, if I have to hear another 60 sec. clip of "atmospheric strings", I may just puke. I did try to find an audio forum to ask this question on but, once again, Google let me down.
There's simply got to be some music library out there somewhere that's fairly consistently good, or at least the amount of corporate hoaky blech is at a minimum. Or maybe you, as a composer, have your own site with decent stuff that doesn't appear within the first 100 returns of a Google search. Please, let me know! I've got a project I'm working on right now where I'm in a similar bind with a client who thinks they're David Foster without the audio board and doesn't understand that all this costs money, even if it's only $39.95 (and the additional hours of all my searching). They also don't understand that just because they own the CD doesn't mean you're allowed to set pictures to it and call it your own. And if I have to listen to "Simply the Best" used in another video, I may just scream.
Thanks for any help you can provide!

I have been using IB Audio for years. Ian is a great composer (and nice guy). It's a yearly membership or by the track. The membership is the best value. For one price you get HUNDREDS of tracks and loops.
www.ibaudio.com
Jake

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