The Great Freebie Music Quest

[owsf2000]

I'm bored.

So I got to thinking.

You see why I should always be entertained now right?

Anyhow, I wondered how much music was available on the net for free directly from artists for download. And so I started looking around here and there. Not too concerned about the quality of the mp3s (or oggs, etc etc) so long as it's playable. Looking at the stuff I currently have on the harddrive that fit this bill (Stuff by Jonathan Coulton, stuff released on The FuMP, plus a couple that were on Homestar Runner and Symphony X's website) the directory is already 128megs.

I'll pass over samples when I do some further searching. (you know, artists that have 30sec-1min snippets of their songs for free) The songs I downloaded from Symphony X's homepage were full tracks. Quite nice.

I'll place a goal of trying to find 80gigs for the end of 2008. You know, just to show you can fill up an ipod if you really try. ;) I'll update my progress now and then over the year.


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Mord

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[alessar.livejournal.com]

Amazon gives out a free mp3 or 2 every week, and they're going to have a promo with Pepsi for free downloads kicking off during the Superbowl.