FUCK

[Untelligent]

[!--quoteo(post=0:date=:name=Wikipedia)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE (Wikipedia)[div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]On Friday March, 20, 2009 at 4:00 PDT, Spiral Frog servers shut down for good.[/quote]

Anyone know of some other legal free music download sites? Wikipedia mentions a few, but the ones that actually let me put the music on an mp3 player don't have a very good selection.


I might have to start pirating again. >_>

[Aaron]

Just pirate shit.

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[Untelligent]

Yeah, probably.

[nIveK oGre]

legal AND free?

i didnt even think one existed

you can try eMusic though... it's cheap and legal

[nIveK oGre]

oh and if you only pirate shit and dont even pay for any music then you're a fucking tool

some of us are old enough to have witnessed the decline of the music industry and whatever you think of the RIAA and major labels... it's really the indie labels that have been effected the most.  i've seen a ton of great labels have to quit because they couldnt make enough money anymore due to people downloading albums.  for the bands that were more underground and only sold 5k albums to begin with you can't survive when half of those start downloading the albums instead.

dont be a fucking tool... buy the music you love.

[Aaron]

oh and if you only pirate shit and dont even pay for any music then you're a fucking tool

some of us are old enough to have witnessed the decline of the music industry and whatever you think of the RIAA and major labels... it's really the indie labels that have been effected the most.  i've seen a ton of great labels have to quit because they couldnt make enough money anymore due to people downloading albums.  for the bands that were more underground and only sold 5k albums to begin with you can't survive when half of those start downloading the albums instead.

dont be a fucking tool... buy the music you love.

I will start buying when they start selling at a reasonable price.

[DrunkWino]

oh and if you only pirate shit and dont even pay for any music then you're a fucking tool

some of us are old enough to have witnessed the decline of the music industry and whatever you think of the RIAA and major labels... it's really the indie labels that have been effected the most.  i've seen a ton of great labels have to quit because they couldnt make enough money anymore due to people downloading albums.  for the bands that were more underground and only sold 5k albums to begin with you can't survive when half of those start downloading the albums instead.

dont be a fucking tool... buy the music you love.

I will start buying when they start selling at a reasonable price.

I agree with both sides of this equation. I'm sick and fucking tired of paying an inflated price for a CD (cheaper to produce than a tape ever was,) that has a grand total of 3 songs that I actually like on it.

I buy maybe one or two CD's a year nowadays. The rest I buy singles online and stick on my MP3 player and burn my own CD's.

/haven't pirated in a quarter past forever though. A good musician should be rewarded after all.

[Untelligent]

legal AND free?

i didnt even think one existed

There's a very small handful of them (advertisement-driven). Until recently, Spiral Frog was the only one (apparently) that not only had a large selection, but also allowed you to put it on an mp3 player.

I've also found songs there that even Limewire didn't have.

[nIveK oGre]

the "they are too expensive" argument is oxlllllllllllllllllllllllshit!!!!!!!

1. the fucking music stores are all gone, i live in a major city and i can only name two music stores in my city and one of them is a used cd store.... only the major chains were charging a lot

2. you can buy online for cheap... fucking amazon.com has most cds for like 12.99... if you just want digital copies there are plenty of sites where you can buy for cheap

tell me what you listen to and i'll show you where to buy it cheap

you stealing the music isn't going to make anything any cheaper... and while you're at it you are crippling the music industry.  you aren't just hurting the britney spears types... you are hurting the good music, the bands that need their few thousand sales to survive and keep making music.

so dont give me that it's too expensive crap because that's oxshi.. i would've bought that argument a decade ago when you couldnt go in a store and see a  cd for less than 17 bucks but those days are long gone

[Fake from State Jarm]

I wish people would just pirate brittney spears cds and other overexposed oxshit. politically motivated pirating, there's a novel idea. (at least in this context)

[Ryun]

there was this one russian site that gave you 10 free downloads for signing up


you could exploit this forever


lol russians and their laws


I never did get around to abusing it though

[nIveK oGre]

that russian site also never paid the artists... so it wasn't legal either

if you like a band or an artist you need to be paying for their music... it's as simple as that.

[Gangs]

the best bet one has is to listen online in one of the thousands of cheap listening sites,even free ( smashitsusa.com ) , use your net connection if you dont want to buy!