Cheap ways to get music without illegally downloading it?
Ok, I don’t want to sound stingy but music is kinda expensive, plus I’m a student so I’m not quite a bank. I also dont like downloading music from limewire or other sources like that. Any Suggestions?
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Second hand music shops.
Sometimes libraries replace old cd’s with new ones and sell them for cheap to the public.
Ask friends to make you mp3’s from music they own and burn them on a cd.
If you don’t care too much what you get, Google “SXSW torrents” to download 1,000 or more songs (per year) from SXSW performing acts. Totally legit. I find I keep about 20% of the songs and toss the rest.
You could use dirpy which converts youtube videos to mp3 files.
You might try some of the sites on this guy’s list.
use Rhapsody, for 10 dollars a month you get unlimited music downloads, they’ll even go straight to youre iphone or ipod
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It is completely free and it stays that way forever.
@rebbel Your suggestion: “Ask friends to make you mp3’s from music they own and burn them on a cd.” is still piracy (copyright violation).
Really, @Dr_Lawrence?
Even if they don’t sell it to you?
That is harsh, i think.
Well, i would never want to recommend doing illegal stuff, so disregard my advice then (to the OP).
@rebbel What it does reduce the income of the artists and all the people involved in producing the music by whatever that person would have paid for the music if someone hadn’t made a copy of it for them.
If you aren’t a stickler for music quality (as in, kbps, not the actual awesomeness of the music), you might want to try EMusic. I myself am an audiophile, so it doesn’t work for me too much :P
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