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- ani625, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9OMG . legal and music in the same sentence!
- mrspin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7The post has since been updated to reflect this.
- DangerCollie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5No mention of Magnatunes? If you like jazz/blues give a listen to Burnshee Thornside, if you like dance/techno put ears on Dr. Kuch. The artists get half the money if you choose to download the album, which you can listen to for free.
It's great to see so many great sites popping up to serve this market. Death to BMG! Death to RIAA! Burn in hell all of you wankers. - nonanull, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6where is pandora?
- sofwarewizard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4great list - always feel better knowing where i can get music that is legit.
- mojaam, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I don't know if it's legal but seaching google using special syntax (the index, ext, etc...) is somewhat good. Also forgot Ruckus.com, but I think you need a college email to use that.
- goldenratiophi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3My personal favorite: http://www.dimeadozen.org
Legal torrents live tapings and such. Quality varies greatly, but there are some amazing shows being shared. - Tyr7BE, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3As an Emusic customer I can recommend them. They have some very interesting stuff, and deal exclusively in smallish independent labels. Don't go here to get the latest Hillary Duff, but a lot of really good stuff comes up on their front page that you just wouldn't normally find.
- Tyr7BE, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I can't vouch for all of them, but I know emusic just gives you mp3s.
- Smegzor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3no mention of Jamendo or ccMixter or Magnatune
Why stop at 10 when the list hasn't even started? :P - diggdat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I have really enjoyed the some direct music from Steadman Band. Several albums, direct from the artist, free downloads:
http://www.steadmanband.com
Direct link to the downloads:
http://www.steadmanband.com/main.html
I became interested in this band after reading this quote:
Paul McCartney says: "The band Steadman have the songs, the musicianship, the energy and the enthusiasm to blow the top off any club, or arena, and, if given a listen, have that rare quality -- the ability to deliver! I like this band!!"
Enjoy :) - themuffinman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I went to the comments to mention that one. It's a bit annoying to get a membership (they open up a few every hour i think, but some random refreshing and you'll be fine). There are a ton of shows on there, though not all are great shows, and not all are great recordings. But there is some *really* good stuff, the price is right, and it's legal. I highly recommend checking it out.
- EvanVolm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/
- bdbr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Funny that iTunes gets credit for giving you a free song every week, but eMusic gets no love for a free song EVERY DAY. You can end up getting almost as many free songs as you pay for in a month. Some of its pretty good, too. Of course, I guess its "conditionally" free because you have to have an active subscription.
iTunes used to have great free songs a couple years back - Rogue Wave, Simple Kid, Feist, Kaiser Chiefs, Athlete, DCFC, Brandi Carlile, M.I.A. Lately they've just offered awful stuff that was obviously meant to sound like radio music but not good enough for radio. - Synn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Shameless bury.
- EnterDaMatrix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I use dime too and I was able to get an account right away. Dime has helped me discover so much music and I've made tons of purchases based on bands I would have never heard of. My ratio is 1.67 (208.04 GB up and 124.59 down).
- zuperxtreme, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1www.blogmusik.net
I don't know how legal they are, but they are a great site. All the music you want. Users can even upload their own and tag it. You can also in bed a player in your blog. - Lister169, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Death to Videodrome! Long live the new flesh!
- OGTL, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1another great site: dimeadozen.org
- Thorpe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1MP3.com offer some free music depending on whether the band wants to put it up.
- goldenratiophi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Actually, Dime automatically cleans out unused accounts every 10 minutes, at the same time it updates the front page statistics. It only took me about 20 minute sto get an account.
- EnterDaMatrix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1LOSSY!
Some of their stuff is cool and can't be found elsewhere. But it's still lossy. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1i'd add this one
http://moozaget.com - revjustin2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Since the downfall of Napster in the late 90's, I have been gettin' my groove on legally since with archive.org. Love it.
- WhiteIce89, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yes it's free with a college e-mail, and you can strip the DRM =] Free, 192 kbps straight from the records.. nice.
- tuxidomasx, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2yay. my fav site isnt listed. this is good because if a free-music website gets too popular, it goes to *****
look at imeem. it used to be king ding-a-ling of free web music. now its just a bunch of 30 second clips.
so, yea, i'm keeping my go-to site secret and i hope it doesnt get any bigger - catbertz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Downloaded all. and paypal'd them $25 with a note of encouragement.
I've ranted for years that bands should put paypal links on their personal sites for us evil downloaders to heal our karma lol. I'm happy to hurt the labels, but would like to support the bands that get screwed at both ends. - thelistmaker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Just thought I'd add that, British band Ooberman yesterday decided to give away their entire catalogue for free, if any of you are into indie/orchestral pop. (http://www.ooberman.net/jukebox.htm & http://digg.com/music/The_band_Sony_didn_t_want_you_to_hear)
A shameless plug, I know, but if you're looking for legal music, for free, they have uploaded DRM free mp3s of what would apparently cost £75 on iTunes (where they are also available) - rowlodge, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1all except the ones you want, enjoy.
- jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's not even my site. I was joking.
- Synn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Epitonic would be good if the songs would actually download for me in Firefox.
- jchrome, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Generally speaking, private torrent trackers are the way to go, but the live archives on some of these free/legal sites are very intriguing. I was surprised to see a few good bands after a quick look at archive.org.
- bagboyrebel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1what if you want to play it on an mp3 player, or burn it to cd?
- Kyouto, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Actually imeem is making a comeback. It went to 30 second clips, but now they've asked permission or whatever and most songs are back to full length. I love being able to stream the songs from their server instead of downloading.
- cybernezumi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Actually you don't have to be a member to get the free downloads. There's a Google Gadget to show you today's song if you keep forgetting to download it (like I do): http://www.google.com/ig/directory?url=http://www.itsfreedownloads.com/emusic_gadget.xml
emusic also has various albums with free songs too if you go looking. - mwrl, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Anything that is Anti-Hollywood is good for everyone!! Bring the Art back into Music and boycott Hollywood! Music should be free!
- hiPpymIck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13/4 free tracks per band - they do it to get new fans i guess
http://freeindie.com/ - QuantumE13, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Who needs any of that stuff when you can use Pandora radio which plays only music you like?
- likwidfuzion, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0www.seeqpod.com
nuff said - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1so what?
- avnerlevit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0If you are a college student www.ruckus.com is the place for you. Free music, although with DRM- but then, we know what to do with DRM don't we? fairtwwooo... /door bell
- actlikeyoukno, on 05/24/2009, -0/+0http://bangkadang.com
check it out - new social music site - ssavoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0It doesn't matter whether or not they're free- they can't have any DRM.
- rouslan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Who needs this??
- chesbomb, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2for hip hop fans. mixtapetorrent.com and mixfiend.com
- Magnes, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2You could also try Jamendo (jamendo.com) - it uses torrents as a way of distribution of free, legal music.
- mugwumpz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0http://freesolopiano.com, http://freesologuitar.com, http://freemusicgroup.com
- jacquesm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0http://freemp3s.daz.com/
- lamboman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Looks like a good link for finding music from individuals, but there isn't really any cheap way to actually download the latest chart music at a low price. iTunes is good, but the sound quality is horrible and the servers are now running much slower than they used to, from what I've noticed. Though, as many people will know, a new successor to AllOfMP3, MP3Spark, has opened up, which is said to be exactly the same as the old site.
- vobbsik, on 11/13/2007, -0/+0pirates are not legal
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