Does anyone know of any sites where you can download music for free...and legally?
Posted by FlyingCow (Member # 2150) on :
::resolves not to get into another debate over free music::
::leaves thread, never to return::
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*sigh* I don't want to start a debate about pirating music from the internet. I just want to know if I can legally download a couple of songs for free. Unless someone wants to e-mail me the files. *grin*
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
nevermind. It looks like you have to pay subsription fees to everything. *can't afford to buy a CD for one song* Guess I'll have to live without it for a while. Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
And you don't have to pay a subscription fee ot use the iTunes Music Store. It would cost you $.99 for a song.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Thank you, fugu!!
We have thousands upon thousands of legally downloaded shows. Sanctioned by the artists. A good thing FOR the artists.
It is how we found our band, and many others: Donna the Buffalo, The Horse Flies, Jason Mraz, many others.
Go to the Internet Archive. I have a link on another thread. I will find it. Or look for it in the etree site.
Liz
[ April 27, 2004, 09:37 PM: Message edited by: Elizabeth ]
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
Or click the link I posted Posted by jexx (Member # 3450) on :
Also: amazon.com has lots of songs for free (under 'free music downloads' on the pull-down menu). That's how I found the Brobdingnian (sp?) Bards. Totally fun!
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I think the subscription fee is a great deal. $10 a month, and you only pay per-song if you want the rights to burn it...so I can have as many songs on my computer as I want, and I only pay for the stuff I actually want on a cd.
Does iTunes let you play the music without paying for each individual song first?
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
From Narnia: a place to download music by unsigned or newly signed artists. Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
quote: I think the subscription fee is a great deal. $10 a month, and you only pay per-song if you want the rights to burn it...so I can have as many songs on my computer as I want, and I only pay for the stuff I actually want on a cd.
A lot of them only cost $1 a month, and free downloads.
Posted by Heffaji (Member # 3669) on :
Check out sharingthegroove.com. Possibly the greatest free and legal location for music on the net.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Eruve: But what kind of selection do they have?
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Supersphere has hundreds of indie rock/punk/hardcore shows free to streamline and/or download.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
ph, I dunno. I don't use 'em. Posted by Suneun (Member # 3247) on :
pH: you can listen to a 30 second clip of the song before purchasing it. There's no initial fee to listen to clips of songs on itunes, you don't even need to register. Just download the latest itunes and poke around.
It's usually 99¢ per song, but occasionally some songs differ. Albums are supposed to be $9.99, but sometimes they differ.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Sorry, Fugu!
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Ah, see, what I like about Napster is that you can listen to almost all of the songs available before you purchase them. You can even download them to your computer without paying the fee, so long as you don't intend to burn them. Totally worth my $10/month, in my opinion, since it means I can create very random playlists full of Spice Girls and Eazy-E and just play them in my room on a whim.
[ April 28, 2004, 01:05 AM: Message edited by: pH ]
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Don't forget to support your local used record store, plz.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
SS, I probably spend as much money seeing live shows as some people would on cds. All the musicians on Etree give permission for their shows to be taped so they get more exposure. Honest to goodness, it ends up translating into more cd sales, used and new. they know this, ir they probably wouldn;t sanction the taping. Liz
Posted by BookWyrm (Member # 2192) on :
Soundclick is another place for free legal downloads
Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
It just launched a couple of days ago, but it looks like it will be pretty good.
I will have some music up there as soon as they approve it. My stuff so far is mostly heavy techno rock, but I am hoping to do more guitar based stuff. So far, it is mostly just created with samples and loops but I will be adding some of my own playing when I get some better recording equipment set up.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Elizabeth, I wasn't trying to impugn anyone's motives. I was just looking at the price of .99 cents a song and I was thinking that that actually wasn't a very good deal for anything over a year old since you can get stuff for cheaper than 9.99 a cd/99 cents a song at any used record store. And by supporing that store, you are supporting someone who is probably intimately involved in the local music scene. Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Yes, but artists receive no credit for used cd sales.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
SS, I am sorry if it sounded that way(defensive), because I didn't mean it that way. I was just making my redundant live music schpiel. (how do you spell that word, anyway) Liz
Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
Liz, "schpiel" works; "shpiel" is probably the more common spelling.
But don't forget Rivka's Primary Rule of Transliteration:
No matter how you spell it, someone will spell it differently.
And the corollary:
So just spell it the way you think it ought to be spelled, and ignore the nay-sayers.
(I tend to make exceptions for those words which have a single accepted English spelling. But those are rare.)
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
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