The Great "Cheapest Legal Music Downloads" Hunt.

Sittingduck_2

I absolutly love Spotify I can't post the link just google it

& and download a tiny little app

You dont download music but stream it directly to your computer

Pros
- Easy to use
- Massive selection of music classical/jazz/dance/metal/old/new... lots and lots & more added all the time. My benchmark srearch is for Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper a fairly obscure punk/skiffle duo Spotify has them
- Suggestions of similar bands & music "If you like this then...."
- Radio mode..choose say 80's Reggae and get a random playlist of that genre
- You can make playlists & share them with other Spotify users

Cons
- you get a little advert every 10 songs (I don't find it that intrusive) you can subscibe for £10/month to have ad free listening
- Streamed music won't win over the audiophiles

Martin_Saved_Me_Money

Go to we7.com and you can listen free and then - if you really need to carry it around - buy track by track at reasonable prices.

No - I don't get commission - seemed like a very good service?

danielsbrewer

Go to hotukdeals and check out the thread on 29p albums from Amazon. I brought about 10 today!

windyc

I get Martin's email every week and spotted the re-open of this thread, love my music too. If you like dance music there's a really good offer at the moment on xpressbeats.com - 20% discount on a purchase, and most songs are 85p each. You have to spend £2, but that wasn't a problem for me! Just enter 'summer2009' at the checkout for your discount.

abercorn

mandycl35 wrote: »

MYMUSICINC.COM you pay $17.00 for a years subscription.and it is legal

Another U.S site is MP3PANDA.COM , its really good you have to register and credit your account with £10, you can get the latest albums for 50c (25p roughly) and a single track for 5c (2p) ...The good thing is you can drop them into Itunes for your Ipod ..you can save a fortune!!

comdw

Martin_Saved_Me_Money wrote: »

Go to we7.com and you can listen free and then - if you really need to carry it around - buy track by track at reasonable prices.

No - I don't get commission - seemed like a very good service?

Thanks, this is great - like Spotify but without the requirement to download and run a client, I had been looking for something like this.

keithcparry

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This is a completely legal and comprehensive site where you can search for most tracks that have been released - queue them and listedn to them completely free of charge - all you have to do is put up with occasional audio adverts between a few tracks - and occasional visual ads on screen.

I was amazed by the range of artists and albums on the site - just about every name I could search for was found - and virtually their full back catalogue was available.

Don't miss it:
www.spotify.com

Keith C Parry
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FatAndy

danielsbrewer wrote: »

Go to hotukdeals and check out the thread on 29p albums from Amazon. I brought about 10 today!

I know this has been mentioned before but it's always worth checking Amazon for free downloads. There are currently eleven tracks available FOC including Spinal Tap, The Prodigy and The Proclaimers. They seem to change them from time to time so keep looking.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=s9_al_bw_srch?%5Fencoding=UTF8&sort=price&rh=i%3Adigital-music%2Cp%5F36%3A000-001&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-4&pf_rd_r=1H01PRJ124RE71YDH71E&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=469306013&pf_rd_i=77197031

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jenniewb

Am still a fan of Napster. Although its a subscription where if you stop, you do lose all your music, they do seem to have all the newest albums out the day they arrive in the shop- bar one or two (rare) being a day late.

I pay £15 a month or £120 for a year and get to download whatever I want on upto 3 devices. I have a phone number (to the USA but charged at local rate) to call and they do seem to have a sound technical team who have helped me out on many occasion and have even been able to talk me through steps to change settings (ie allow napster through the firewall back when I didn't know my download from my upload) and have good (and English speaking!) customer service teams. (Sorry, its just such a huge deal to me for a company to be really good at speaking clearly- three is who my mobile phone is with and its like bashing your head against a wall sometimes...)

I have thousands of tracks downloaded on my computer. Too much for my 8GB MP3- and I am really picky!

peregrin

At the moment I'm using emusic.com which offers varying subscription levels and quite a good range of music, mostly indie but there is more and more mainstream stuff coming online. There are free trial offers available too, google "emusic 50" or "emusic 75" or "emusic 100" to get the biggest trial offer you can.

For individual piecemeal tracks not on emusic I just use Amazon MP3 or 7digital.com - the latter lets you pay by SMS but songs are considerably more expensive that way at £1.50.

mp3sparks.com / allofmp3.com or whatever you want to call it do now accept credit cards again through a partner of theirs, from what I could see their partner is "Plimus" who seem fairly solid and legit and I used it to pay $25 (via a prepaid card just in case!) and the credit got added to my account instantly so all seems good for the time being there.

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