Free Music Downloads: How Not to Piss People Off
Bob posted about a seemingly (but not) cool Best Buy music promotion he encountered at Best Buy. Basically, you're offered 14 free music downloads at the check out counter. Cool, right? To get them, you have to leave Best Buy's site, and head to Rhapsody's site. Then you have to download Rhapsody software...then you have to pre-subscribe to it (you can't just get the free version)...there are something like 10 hoops to leap through before you get anything resembling an MP3 file. Sucky.
Bob followed that post up with advice to indie bands on how to use free downloads in an efficient, and value-adding way (i.e. collect an email address). Interesting.
It all reminded me that I wanted to write up a list of the many sources of good, free indie music downloads that are out there... Maybe that'd be a good holiday post..?
Where do you get your free music? And how do you "shop" for (or learn about) new bands?
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I learn about new music from Garagespin... and friends, either online or offline. Too many good indie music blogs to need to stray from them.
Posted by: Taylor | December 3, 2006 09:01 PM
Absolutely agree. I've actually been learning about a lot of new bands while using Pandora, lately.
Posted by: MikeB | December 4, 2006 08:18 AM
I've heard about a lot of newer bands through Pandora as well. Also, Sirius radio plays all kinds of underground stuff. And, unfortunately, Myspace as well, though I feel weird admitting that in public.
Posted by: Jay | December 4, 2006 10:23 PM
I've heard good things about both Sirius and XM for that. Quite a few podcasts and Mp3 blogs as well. MySpace...eh...it's a little too much work to sift through everything, though there are definitely som great bands frequenting its pages...
Posted by: MikeB | December 4, 2006 11:19 PM
I've found some great music by checking out podcastdirectory.com and podbean.com and also at the newly (they say) revamped mp3.com, all of which now host my own musical projects, and I'd also have to add check out places like audiopyro.com, music.download.com, and tagworld.com. then there's always youtube. lol.
Posted by: eNuminous | December 29, 2006 04:39 AM