LEGAL music downloads

[Christie04]

Can anyone please tell me if there are any LEGAL music downloads? Thanks!

[aqlo]

Yes Christie there are tremendous gobs of legal music downloads. Almost everything I download from peer-to-peer is legally distributed fo example, because I have weird taste and there are many independent artists using p2p as their first line of distribution.

But if you are looking for eminem or britney or any of those fake stars created by the clear channel cartel then your selection will be very limited, and you may have to pay a nominal fee of some kind. What sort of answer were you looking for? I mean do you need links to legal radio stations and music-selling orgs or are you trying to convince your parents kazaa is ok (it isn't) or are you asking if there is a p2p that prevents illegal trading (there isn't) or what

[Christie04]

Hi there! I am just looking for a site that is LEGAL for me to download music so I can burn cd's. I know the KAZAA site is really being watched and I did not know if there were any LEGAL sites. I know I will more than likely have to pay but nothing is free these days....Did you hear of apple.com/music? I have been checking that out...check it out and let me know what you think...

Thanks a bunch!

[PowerMan57two]

Yes there are many legal sites. Napster is coming back. Apple music is out right now, there's emusic.com and many others. Just that they don't offer every song which sucks because most songs I want they don't offer. And I'm not going to pay $1 for a song. Especially when it's downloaded, I can get the single for that price and get everything, the cd, case etc.

[Christie04]

Thank you! I just contacted the Apple site and you have to have an apple computer to download from this site...this sucks because it looks like a great site. I will check out the other one you gave me. I can't wait till Napser comes back out..

Thanks again!

[jonnymnemonic]

Smells like troll to me. But hey, been wrong about that before.

Yes, there are places you can buy music online, legally. However, caveat emptor. Different sites have different licensing terms, and some places can have different licensing terms depending on the song itself. And none of them really have what I would consider a great catalog from which to choose (certainly not iTunes with its paltry 200,000 song selection).

In fact, some places, you buy the song (or pay the monthly fee), and you not only can't burn the song to CD, but if you stop paying the monthly fee, you can't even listen to the song on your hard drive anymore either.

Read the fine print. Apple's catalog is pretty lame, but the licensing terms are good. There is, as yet, no service that combines flexible licensing terms, a great catalog, and a great price. You're lucky to get even two out of those three at this point.

Give it a couple of years and the market will figure out that we want all three things (price, selection, and flexible licensing), and we won't settle for less. Then we'll start getting some services that are worth our while.

[guido123]

The best and by far cheapest legal downloadsite is www.weblisten.com

If you want to legally buy your mp3's this is the best site because they also have no limitations with what you can do with your dowloads.

[Krypt0]

http://www.weblisten.com/en/

for the english version..

[collideous]

Tons of free downloads on sites such as:

http://www.mp3.com
http://www.vitaminic.com
http://www.iuma.com
http://www.peoplesound.com

[shawners]

I can beat all those sites, 10 bucks a gig at www.allofmp3.com It has new albums, singles, b-sides, NEW albums added daily, choose your download format as well.. OGG, Mp3.. Lame mp3.. and thier is free songs and songs already encoded in 128-192-320 that are free.

[DeadMan2003]

There is actually very little I'd be willing to pay for.

For starters it would have to be stuff not usually served up in the west. I like a lot of Japanese music. When I can get a high bitrate non-protected music file of the likes of Yoko Kanno, Utada Hikaru, Boa and the like at 25c per track I may resconsider it.

[bmc152003]

www.mp3s4free.net (http://www.mp3s4free.net) i use it alot

[Pebbles100]

I tried to download some of my fav's from Apple, and they offer not one artist that I like. I still used p2p, and thank God I like alot of European artists - NOT ones that are sucked in by the RIAA!