Free, Legal Music Online

Excecutive Sumarry about Free, Legal Music Online By Daniel Punch

Free Music Download Sites

What I'd like to do is take a look at the completely free and legal alternative to 'stealing' music. Those wonderfully talented musicians who are willing to put their creations online to download for free, solely for the joy of spreading their creations to the masses.

Free music is surprisingly easy to come by even music by famous bands. A search for 'free legal MP3 downloads' will reveal a huge number of pages to visit.

Towards the hopefuls, the talented bands that have yet to be 'noticed'. A great place to start is garageband.com/ or the aforementioned purevolume.com. The great thing about smaller bands is that you can often find bands that come from your local area and then go and see them play live. Many music search engines will let you search for bands of a particular genre in a particular area, which makes it all quite easy.

A fairly major contributor to the online music scene is the remixer. Chief among the tunes selected to be remixed are those old ditties that used to play through the simplest of sound chips on now aging consoles: the video game theme songs. A few good places to start are remix.kwed.org and remix.overclocked.org as well as a personal favourite band machinaesupremacy.com

With web hosts already being penalized hugely for illegal content being stored on their servers (having an entire server taken down because of one inconsiderate user is damaging and irritating beyond belief) and moves being made to charge ISPs for the content being accessed by their users, it makes more sense than ever to get out there and grab yourself an awesomely original and completely legal music collection.