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Keep Rocking: 30+ Sites for Free & Legal Music

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  • arielh85, on 07/01/2008, -3/+8woohoo!
  • Kiryuu, on 07/01/2008, -0/+16yay free legal music!
  • BennyGreenberg, on 07/01/2008, -0/+18Legal is a big key
    • Tyrghast, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1considering the number of people illegally downloading music, I'd say 'free' is a bit more important.
  • sassyt, on 07/01/2008, -1/+5Excellent list of sites - bookmarked it :) thanks Manny
  • daFilms, on 07/01/2008, -0/+9Finally some love for Jamendo -- all music is under the Creative Commons license! They do provide a terrific service, both for the listeners and artists. By years end they'll be well known in the States too; it'd be shame otherwise.

    Anyone here have their material up on http://www.jamendo.com/ ??
    • homesqua, on 07/02/2008, -0/+7Since you asked, hopefully i don't get dugg down a trillion times for posting a link..
      http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/6274
      Published under the free art license! Hope some of you enjoy it.
      • RubberBinder, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2Just put it on my mp3 player, I like it. =)
    • dfnj123, on 07/02/2008, -2/+1Jamendo is one of my favorite music sites.

      There's a dl link on every page.
  • TJ11240, on 07/01/2008, -1/+26where the hell is pandora?
    • AngelBunny, on 07/02/2008, -1/+3and muxtape
    • FoxOrian, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4I think this list is for actual downloadable tracks...
      Muxtape and Pandora are just streaming.
    • bmdubya, on 07/02/2008, -1/+2I love Pandora. I'm listening to it right now. Its great.
    • WoollyMittens, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2And Pandora ***** European users good by crumbling to the RIAA.
  • screamthenrun, on 07/01/2008, -0/+4I use SpiralFrog.... although it doesn't have EVERYTHING, it's pretty good and the ads are just banner ads like the ones we see on digg...
    only downside is if you plan on using an ipod because the music is subscription based, but i don't mind using a different mp3 player so it works for me
    • N0153T4NK, on 07/02/2008, -4/+1"There's ads on digg?" comment in 3...2...
  • pixelbud, on 07/01/2008, -1/+12Amazon MP3 FTW.
    • dfnj123, on 07/02/2008, -2/+2Stuff I care about on there aren't free
  • bigfinger, on 07/01/2008, -11/+3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ___________
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  • hayzeus, on 07/01/2008, -1/+4So.... what do I do with my MP3 player once the batteries are drained? Can it be recycled somehow as, say, a colorful salad garnish?
    • arjie, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Dude, just turn it in and get a new one. Duh.
  • interad, on 07/01/2008, -1/+3and legal? wow!
  • drulzcom, on 07/01/2008, -2/+5Another one is www.drulz.com, but it's geared more towards indie artists
  • 30Seconds, on 07/02/2008, -4/+10thesixtyone?
    • PurpleDingo, on 07/02/2008, -3/+2They missed TheSixtyOne and Pandora. If that's not a bury, I dont know what is.
  • Bonekhan, on 07/02/2008, -1/+5As a music pirate, am I a hypocrite to be using these websites?
  • NightVortez, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4Eh, doesn't isohunt now carry legal music?
  • snowbones, on 07/02/2008, -8/+6legal music is for pussies.
  • UltamateAddict, on 07/02/2008, -2/+1musiclemon.com is AEWSOME

    and also is jimmyr.com just use google!
  • apophenic, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1inb4 no 8bitpeoples
  • stvrunner, on 07/02/2008, -0/+0Sweet FREE stuff
  • scy1192, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3the Newgrounds Audio Portal also has plenty of free music, although by people you have (most likely) never heard of.
    http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/
  • datcrazydj, on 07/02/2008, -0/+17***** THE RIAA
  • Soave, on 07/02/2008, -2/+24I prefer free illegal music.
    • jc7012, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3how could it be wrong,


      if it feels so right?
    • arjie, on 07/02/2008, -1/+1It sounds better when its illegal? ;)
  • vinceislegend, on 07/02/2008, -2/+8http://www.thesixtyone.com
  • Khast, on 07/02/2008, -3/+4Shhhhhhhhhhh!!!! The RIAA may try to shut these sites down, they want control of what you listen to. From their top 40, to what CDs are available at any given time....If they can't control them by copyrights, they'll have to have Media Defender DDoS them because they are suspicious.

    /tinfoil hat
  • Spartanious, on 07/02/2008, -0/+9This is actually a bunch of crap sites. I just clicked through some of them an most of them want you to sign up before you get you "free music". The least flashiest sites have the least amount of gimmics (who knew?) and the most obscure of music (whatever floats your boat though) and the opposite being true as well. Some of the site on the list aren't even free.. They want names and addresses (thats when i stopped). You're better off just torrenting or getting your music from newsgroups. Buried for inaccuracy.

    I do realize these site might do well for individual artists but.... the sites themselves are shady.
  • pronobozo, on 07/02/2008, -8/+0
    if you like electronic music, you may like my stuff. under creative commons

    can ya digg it

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    hey if you can't beat'em, just do your own thing.
  • nonks, on 07/02/2008, -3/+2great list but they forgot:

    http://beemp3.com/
  • scoot87, on 07/02/2008, -3/+1playlist.com is Free & somewhat legal...I guess
  • holyreality, on 07/02/2008, -3/+1media portal = the best
  • trafficlight, on 07/02/2008, -2/+0http://www.negativeiq.com

    Nerdcore and Viking Rock.
  • d1gg3r1, on 07/02/2008, -8/+2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ___________
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  • NecroDigg, on 07/02/2008, -3/+7you only need one site - www.thepiratebay.com
  • Owwmykneecap, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5or we could continue to get music free, drive the popularity of new artists who then make their money from Radio play demanded by us and gigs, increasing the amount of live music around.

    Everyone wins

    and the coloured girls sing: Do da-do do do-do......
  • en3r0, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3Legit Torrents has some stuff too.

    http://www.legittorrents.info/
  • AndersHj, on 07/02/2008, -2/+1Hi guys
    If we are talking about fairness to the independent artists, music and video, I think we should definitely include Http://www.redantenna.com

    I know RedAntenna is a startup, but they seem to have a whole new take on how fair digital distribution should be done.

    Artist set their own prices
    Artist set their commisions
    Artist keep all rights, and any fans or blogger gets to make money on recommending artist to their friend or readers
  • bblande, on 07/02/2008, -1/+5Personally, I prefer to steal music.
  • Enfecktion, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2www.playlist.com
  • drgirlfriend, on 07/02/2008, -1/+1http://www.humblevoice.com
  • MeowMeACat69, on 07/02/2008, -1/+0dizzler.com
  • jah008, on 07/02/2008, -1/+1And one site for your free illegal music needs....

    www.sourcepirate.com
  • Jerky1312, on 07/02/2008, -1/+5A few more sites...

    http://www.wolfgangsvault.com
    http://www.datpiff.com
    http://www.jango.com
    http://www.thesixtyone.com
    http://www.deezer.com
    http://freealbums.blogsome.com/album-directory-a-z
    http://www.musicovery.com
    http://www.muxtape.com
    http://www.slacker.com
    http://audiolunchbox.com
    http://www.babulous.com/home.jhtml
    http://www.bandbuzz.com
    http://projectopus.com
    http://www.sessionsound.com
    http://www.stage.fm
  • vawksel, on 07/02/2008, -1/+1jukefly.com ftw
  • transform100, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1What's legal?
    • abtarhar, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1your mom isnt
      • transform100, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1OMG! my moms a mexican? I would have never guessed =(
  • durga2112, on 07/02/2008, -0/+0I have a blog at http://totallyfreemusic.blogspot.com/ with links to my favourite sources of free legal music downloads.
    • WoollyMittens, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Ah yes. Blogspot. The new Geocities. :)
      • durga2112, on 07/02/2008, -0/+0Hehe. Well, anything that lets me write about music while also working full time as a game developer, working part time on a PhD in computational linguistics, and taking care of a young family is all right by me. :)

        There is nothing in the blog that I haven't personally listened to, though, and I have to really like it before I even consider posting about it. I don't believe in just throwing a bunch of links together and calling it a blog post. I'm assuming that your comment was written in jest (at least partially), but in case there are people who automatically dismiss anything with blogspot.com in the URL, if you love music I would really appreciate a visit from you.

        Still, maybe I should add "SunsetStrip" to the URL to give it a more nostalgic feeling...
  • spyderveloce, on 07/02/2008, -1/+0***** THE RIAA!
  • surfchicky23, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1www.legalsounds.com the best site Ive used. 1 dollar an album, great range, great quality. The downside is its a bit slow.
  • Tyrghast, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Yaknow, if everyone took the time spent searching for legal+free music and spent it pirating, we'd be baby steps closer to killing the consumer-and-artist-rape-machine known as the RIAA.
  • arjie, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1I've been using Amie Street since the beginning, and I really like their model. If you recommend a song before it starts to cost anything you'll get money equivalent to how much the song eventually costs. It's pretty cool. And sometimes you get pretty big artists there for virtually nothing if you're in early. Like Whitesnake (which you could've got for free when they first got on) and stuff.
  • uberduger, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Not free, but a good way to stick two fingers up at the RIAA:
    CDBaby.
    Great listing of independent CDs and artists, with the option to search for popular bands that you like and it gives you similar indie stuff.
  • sidekicksuicide, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com

    all albums they release are free for download. Lots of good punk and pop punk stuff.
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