Free legal mp3s

[Spriggan]

sweet find Jeffe I love that game.  It's sad Trokia went down I was hopeing for a sequal sometime.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

yeah it was very cool.

[Spriggan]

Don Davis, the composer of the matrix movies and more importantly Behind Enemy Lines has free MP3s on his site.

http://dondavis.filmmusic.com/audio.html

I found this because you cannot find the Behind Enemy Lines Soundtrack for sale any where (not even amazon has it) and he's got 10 tracks on his site.  It's a good start, one of these days I'll find it on e-bay.

[The Jade Knight]

The British ISP Playlouder MSP has made a deal with BMG and a few other indie labels to give this perk to all of its subscribers:

Download any BMG song however you like, whatever format/way you like, from whoever you like.  It's in the subscription price.  It's legal, and the artists get paid.


EDIT (in response to what's below, for space's sake):
Naturally.

However, I expect others to follow suit in the near future (next few years).

[Spriggan]

Too bad that's only legal if you:
1) Live in Brittan
2) Subsribe to that ISP service.

[The Jade Knight]

www.freeirishmusic.com

You couldn't really ask for much better.

I'd highly recommend The Stonering song "The Haughs of Cromdale" which is featured this month.


And while we're at it:
http://www.greenlinnet.com/listen/mp3s.htm

Green Linnet publishes a lot of good Celtic music, and several mp3s are available to download.

[The Jade Knight]

www.magnatune.com ("we are not evil")

Not exactly "free mp3s", but it comes close [Free music, optionally free mp3s].  Every single song/album they offer can be streamed to listen (the full song, high quality).  These are actually .m3u files that link to mp3s you could download, too, without too much effort.  [And I just discovered all of the songs there are under CC licenses, so you're okay to copy and share them.]

From the main page:
"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. And no copy protection (DRM), ever.
"Artists keep half of every purchase. And unlike most record labels, they keep all the rights to their music.
"No major label connections.
"We are not evil."

Right now I'm enjoying some excellent Baroque lute music.