Table of Contents 

• The Big Legal Downloading Sites
• Downloading places you may not know about.
• Specialized Sites
• Music T-Shirts
• Now that you've discovered an awesome band.
• Experience your new favorite band live!
• Hard to find music on eBay
• The Mp3 Poll
• Gifts for Music Lovers
• Compilation Fever!
• New Guestbook
• New Lyrics Libs!

The Big Legal Downloading Sites  

music download .com

This is the general big mp3 site I go to the most. Although it is hosting more and more stream only bigger artists you can still find downloads here. Artists with downloadable songs usually have a heart next to their name so you don't have to keep checking page after page without finding anything free. They also have some ipod friendly playlists that direct you to downloadable songs.

Myspace

Myspace used to be a good place to find mp3s but now it seems more of an ad for many bands. If you have heard of the band chances are you can't download here only stream. You have better downloadable music chances with the more obscure bands so go ahead click on one that intrigues you.

Spinner.com

AOL's spinner site hosts mp3s here. They are not organized by genre, but are in a blog style list. They also have an mp3 of the day.

Insound

This one focuses on selling music but it does have a link for free mp3s. You need to do a lot of scrolling. No Genres and you can't sample the song first. (I hate that)

Pure volume

I searched through a lot of bands and I could not find one that had any downloadable songs here. Not even obscure emo bands with names like my Evermore My Heart Aches For The Trees Beyond. (Plus only 1 woman seems to work there and like 20 guys what is the deal with that?)

Epitonic

I Don't like the design here. I used to go to epitonic all the time, but they got this weird redesign and I can't find anything, so i don't know if Epitonic has up to date stuff or not.

Downloading places you may not know about. 

Fingertips

This site is a good jumping off point to find free and legal mp3s. It has a lot of resources for both hosts and individual artists. It also lists free mp3s weekly under this weeks finds. They are usually from obscure indie bands.

South by Southwest Festival

This music festival gets a huge roster of up and coming bands and hosts mp3s for many of them. Click on any band name with a tape image next to them indicating they have an mp3 available. It's mostly indie rock but there are a few other genres mixed in.

Pitchfork

Pitchfork is a music review site. Click on the forkcast button to find some mp3s mixed in with streams and videos. From my experience Pitchfork is seriously pretentious. Usually they spend 5 paragraphs talking about how a band is sure to be the greatest newest washboard, a broken kazoo, and an orchestra of 47 cats howling. Ignore the writing just click on the song because once in a while something decent slips through. If Pitchfork uses the words avant garde experimentalism from Anartica you do not need to bother clicking on the song at all. In fact it's probably better if you don't.

Record Lbl

RCRD LBL is an online record label there are some mp3s here but not tons. Also there is a lot of crossover of bands between the genres.

Barsuk Records

Death Cab for Cutie is probably the most well known band from this label which hosts an assortment of songs from it and other indie bands.

Filter magazine

Filter magazine hosts some free mp3s here. It skews towards indie rock.

Mp3 4U

This sites has lots of mp3s by artists no one has ever heard of yet, so its best if you are in the mood to dig and discover.

Specialized Sites 

The free Christian music blog

This blog doesn't have much of what I always thought Christian music was like Amy Grant and others hitting you over the head with the words praise, rejoice or joy every 2 seconds. Instead it focuses on indie Christian rock.

The blah blah

Another Christian Music blog. If Christian Indie rock is not your scene this blog features more traditional praise and worship music.

Oddio Overplay

If you are looking for music that is weird and strange stop here. You can find links for stuff like 50s exotica, out of print records from the 1920s, vintage kids records, Bollywood soundtracks and the like. It might come in handy for your next tiki party.

Children's Records and More

This site hosts weird old kids records. If you are tired of Hanna Montana and Radio Disney stop by and play your kids some crazy chanting record from 1954!

Music T-Shirts 

Great funny music shirts for everyone!

I love Bands Baseball Jersey

from Shannon's T-shirt Fort

This shirt lets you share your love for the cooler undiscovered local band scene. Distressed look with an indie Rock vibe.

Price: 21.99

Real Concert T-shirt Dark T-Shirt

from Shannon's T-shirt Fort

Do you spend your money on real concerts featuring real bands that play actual music? why not tell the world with a tee that gently mocks those with completely tragic taste.

Price: 23.99

I downloaded it White T-Shirt

from Shannon's T-shirt Fort

Yeah I downloaded that way before it became cool, now it's so overplayed, i swear they were playing it overhead at that preppy store in the mall, and if I see that commercial one more time...

Price: 19.99

Rock and Roll Forever Ringer T

from Shannon's T-shirt Fort

Rock and Roll Forever! Get out your lighter and swing it side to side. Are you singing along? Good. Now don't forget to buy something with this design.

Price: 19.99

Air Guitar basic White Tee

from Shannon's T-shirt Fort

Beatbox, lip syncing, imitation keytar, karaoke at a chain restaurant, boy bands, lame! Air guitar trumps then all. So rock, rock on! I feel a solo coming on.

Price: 19.99

Now that you've discovered an awesome band.  

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Do You Like Rock Music?

British Sea Power return with their third and fine more...0 points

British Sea Power return with their third and finest full-length. Here they reintegrate the rock with a slew of blistering guitars and unpredictable studio noisemaking worthy of their visceral live performances. Witness fist-pumpers like "No Lucifer" or the Bonzo-styled drumbeat bashed out under a climactic synth-string section on "Waving Flags." Better yet, "Down on the Ground" and "A Trip Out" both feature guitar riffs worthy of the Judas Priest songbook, before they're enveloped in the vast e...0 points

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Vampire Weekend

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This up and coming indie band is getting tons of buzz at the SXSW festival.0 points

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The Reminder

Feist is the solo project of Canada's Leslie Feist more...0 points

Feist is the solo project of Canada's Leslie Feist, a prolific artist who has also played in one capacity or another with Broken Social Scene, Kings of Convenience and half a dozen other bands. The Reminder, her third release, comes from the same well of quiet, appealing songwriting, and delicate vocalizations that made 2004's Let It Die such a sweet treat. This one is a bit more hushed and ballad heavy, closer to Cat Power than Peaches (with whom Feist has also worked with in the past) but main...0 points

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Some People Have Real Problems

After a smattering of success surrounding her incl more...0 points

After a smattering of success surrounding her inclusion in the Six Feet Under series finale with the song "Breathe Me," and collaborations with electronic stars Massive Attack and Zero 7, Sia (Furler) returns with a pop record that's witty and touching, alternately funny and achingly melancholy. Shades of Fiona Apple cross with Joss Stone's blue-eyed soul. Sia shines on a terrifically sung take on the Kinks' (by way of the Pretenders cover) "I Go To Sleep" and her own deeply felt "Lentil." Many...0 points

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Challengers

Pay no attention to the reviews that imply the New more...0 points

Pay no attention to the reviews that imply the New Pornographers have "grown up" or "matured" or "drifted away" from the perfect-pop promise of their first three records. For if you throw darts at the songs on Challengers, an ambitious soundscape that had members of the all-star Canadian band recording their parts all over North America, you'll hit one flawless song after another. "All The Old Showstoppers," "All the Things That Go to Make Heaven and Earth," and "Mutiny, I Promise You" (with its...0 points

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Gifts for Music Lovers 

I Love Music Messenger Bag

from Shannon's T-shirt Fort

Don't be caught at band practice without this design. Makes a great book bag for any music fan.

Price: 23.99

Dancin' Astronaut Ringer T

from Shannon's T-shirt Fort

He has got the moon boots and he is ready to boogie! Everybody loves a dancing astronaut.

Price: 19.99

Tambourine Virtuoso Value T-shirt

from Shannon's T-shirt Fort

Be a master of your instrument. If you inspire with your skills in tambourine, then this is the shirt for you. Value priced!

Price: 13.99

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The perfect retro design for anyone who loves mix tapes and old school tunes from back in the day. Put this on your bed or by your cheeseburger phone.

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Rock On Keyboard Style Tote Bag

from Shannon's T-shirt Fort

Do all your favorite bands feature synthesizers? Do you only listen to 80s bands from England with names that include mode, order, division or fears? Then bust out your keyboard and rock this look!

Price: 17.99

Compilation Fever! 

More songs, more bands, more variety. All on one CD.

Music From The O.C. Mix 4

The show may be gone but the cds live on. A great source of new and upcoming bands.

Amazon Price: $13.98 (as of 10/07/2008)

Juno

The hottest selling soundtrack out right now.

Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 10/07/2008)

If I Were a Carpenter

The classic 90s Carpenter tribute as featured in the movie Juno.

Amazon Price: (as of 10/07/2008)

Once

Music from the little Irish Indie movie that could.

Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 10/07/2008)

Garden State

The movie that introduced many of us to the Shins and other great bands.

Amazon Price: $8.97 (as of 10/07/2008)

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Clarissa789 Great lens, I didn't realise that there were so many LEGAL sites out there to download music from! 5 stars! :-) Posted March 19, 2008

New Lyrics Libs!