Music is culture, and culture should be Free. That's free as in liberty, as in the ability to discuss it, the ability to share it, and even the ability to learn and improve on it. If you like the idea of a music that is not controlled by evil media companies that scam artists, sue single mothers, and cripple your player devices so that you cannot listen to your music anywhere, than you may find that there is plenty of superior quality, free music distributed by "net-labels," or directly by artists, on the Internet. Often, there are options to pay for high quality downloads or CD's, which allow artists to be paid fairly.
The live music archive provides high quality live concerts in a download-able format. The Internet Archive aims preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy. All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly noncommercial, both for access here and for any further distribution.
Jamendo offers free access and free download of music tracks, published with Creative Commons licences. On Jamendo, the Artists choose to give access to their music for free to the users. Users are encouraged to donate to artists, and artists earn money from add revenue.
Listen to complete albums for free. If you like what you hear, download an album for as little as $5 (you pick the price), or buy a real CD, or license our music for commercial use. MP3s & WAVs, and no copy protection (DRM).
(Note: I am not affiliated with any of these sites, and do not receive revenue from linking to them. They are just some favourites of mine).
