George Brims
22-Mar-05, 19:04
I started composing this message in response to a thread about mp3 downloading. While I was composing it ithe topic disappeared, probably because of the illegal file sharing being advocated. However there are a number of places you can get free mp3 files LEGALLY, and broaden your musical tastes too.
Salon.com has a column called Audiofile (http://www.salon.com/ent/audiofile/index.html),, which has at least one song a day. Other good places are Better Propaganda (http://www.betterpropaganda.com/), which gives bands an opening to show off their new stuff, Publicdoman4U (http://www.publicdomain4u.com/) which has old recordings, mostly of blues greats, that are old enough to be out of copyright. For the baby boomer generation there's Prog Archives (http://www.progarchives.com/) with tracks by Yes, Camel, Pink Floyd etc etc. Another more comtemprary one is 3hive (http://www.3hive.com/), and I also find I've bookmarked Tweaker (http://www.tweaker.net/mp3.php).
Of course none of these are going to get you the latest single by whatever boy/girl group is flavour of the month. If you google your favourite band or artist, most will be giving away something when they have a new CD on the way.
You can find someinteresting independent movies at Cinequest (http://www.cinequestonline.org/2005/index.php). If you want to download those you better have broadband!
Salon.com has a column called Audiofile (http://www.salon.com/ent/audiofile/index.html),, which has at least one song a day. Other good places are Better Propaganda (http://www.betterpropaganda.com/), which gives bands an opening to show off their new stuff, Publicdoman4U (http://www.publicdomain4u.com/) which has old recordings, mostly of blues greats, that are old enough to be out of copyright. For the baby boomer generation there's Prog Archives (http://www.progarchives.com/) with tracks by Yes, Camel, Pink Floyd etc etc. Another more comtemprary one is 3hive (http://www.3hive.com/), and I also find I've bookmarked Tweaker (http://www.tweaker.net/mp3.php).
Of course none of these are going to get you the latest single by whatever boy/girl group is flavour of the month. If you google your favourite band or artist, most will be giving away something when they have a new CD on the way.
You can find someinteresting independent movies at Cinequest (http://www.cinequestonline.org/2005/index.php). If you want to download those you better have broadband!