Best way to get music these days..
 

I figure you guys are in the know.. seems like there is a flaw with every means of acquiring music these days. I used to buy CDs, then I switched to Ruckus which was a cheap way to download full albums, since that has closed I'm not sure what to go with. Itunes has DRM protection and charges .99 per song, as does Amazon. At $10 I might as well go back to CDs. There are some smaller websites hosted in Eastern Europe that charge about $1 per album, but I question their legality. So I guess it's either go back to CDs or start only downloading an artist's radio singles like oh so many people already do. Anyone have any good ideas?

I use MP3 Rocket. You can pay a one time fee of $20 Cdn for one year of music downloads.

I get it from the magical music fairy.

It just appears onto my hardrive, an album at a time.

And all these years I thought I was the only one :D

Seriously though, blogs are the way forward. Doesn't work for everything, but 9 times out of 10 you'll find the album you want.

People who are illogically concerned about legality should send their money in shiny little envelopes directly to the bands themselves, because buying CDs doesn't really do shit for them in today's economic environment.

I have a few torrent sites that I frequent, my favorite being Demonoid because I can usually get what I want, but at the same time they also do picks of week so I can take a chance and get something totally awesome that I would never have heard otherwise. I also get a fair amount of stuff from a Naruto forum (of all places) and Music Banter. Blogs are also a good way, but I don't like putting links in my blogs because it could technically get shut down that way, so I ask people to send me an e-mail if they're interested.

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When I'm in the mood for legally buying stuff, I go to a website called amiestreet.com. That website is all kinds of awesome, but I think only works for people living it the states. You can get albums super cheap or free, I've found some stuff that I'd been looking everywhere for at that website, usually for free download too, and it's at 320 kpbs to boot.

Go to a library and rip the music they have there.

I use Limewire and Frostwire. And I don't pay a penny. :shycouch:

No but you metaphorically stick your computers **** into the skankiest most STD ridden whore on the Internet, I hope you've got some decent spyware and anti-virus protection.

to dreadnaught:

I wish my libraries had music collection :( The one near my old apartment was brand spankin' new and had an amazing DVD collection, so I never paid to rent a movie.

Yeah I got some good stuff on there... My computer checks all of the files before I can sample or open them. If they are infected a window pops up and tells me. Plus if you know how to read discriptions on songs you can easily see what is infected and what is'nt.... I mean if it says the song is 10 seconds long... It most likely has AIDS.