Daniel Punch has put together an article which points you to various places on the web, where you can get free and legal music either for downloads or streaming. He says while you can find a lot of music for downloads on an artist’s website or on the record label’s website, there are few places which are a virtual treasure vault of free music, especially if you don’t care for mainstream tunes. For smaller bands, Punch suggests GarageBand, and Pure Volume. MP3.com is the perennial favorite, though I have had tough time finding music which I love there. Does anyone else have more links? Better ones, I hope? Drop them in the comments section!
Get Music Online Legally
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1:00 PM PT
you can somewhat “abuse” launch.com’s radio station by using your preferences to become selective of what you want to listen to when you do an artist station. for instance, I can *basically* listen most of “death cab for cutie” on their fan station if I just X out the other bands that get played. this was of course before YME, but now the $6 is worth it.
3:55 PM PT
Check out Creative Commons’ search enigine at (link)
and for podcast lovers there’s the Podshow network’s new Podsafe Music Network at (link)
See especially CC Chapman’s Accident Hash music podcast at (link)
12:37 PM PT
This site has a bazillion downloads available, mostly by independent artists. Nicely organized with both streaming and download available: (link)
5:54 PM PT
Om,
Check out this site - more than 8,000 free shows - legal and blessed by the bands:
(link)
3:46 PM PT
The NY Times had a feature on this topic:
(link)
Epitonic
Webjay
Furthurnet
The Library of Congress
Folkways
Internet Archive
IUMA
etc.
1:26 AM PT
(link) really good site, various genres including underground artistes
12:02 AM PT
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