Ok, so I've searched around a lot on the internet, maybe a bit too much, for a site that will let me download free music that is licensed. Unfortunately, I haven't found that perfect site yet, but I'm pretty sure that one of you guys might know about some sites. The funny thing is that millions of people download free music on the internet and have no idea that they're breaking the law, but that won't be an excuse if you get busted! So please help me!!

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And i don't think you ever will. These artists and bands want to get paid for their work—just like everyone else; it's the whole reason they started, to make a living off of it. The most you'll probably find is a freebie song (at maybe Mp3.com)—and chances are it's not the song you want. You can purchase songs on iTunes if you want. Each song is only a dollar; you can spare a dollar, right?

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iTunes offers free downloads every week. There's a little of everything, so check back every week to see what they're letting you download this time.

Amazon.com's Music section has a free MP3 download area. You probably aren't going to get your hands on the upcoming Tori Amos album that way (just an example), but more than a few popular artists have uploaded some of their songs to the site.

emusic.com lets you have a free trial if you have a credit/debit card. Just remember to cancel the trial before they bill the card.

You can stream all sorts of stuff for free via iTunes and other programs, but that doesn't really help you if you want to load your MP3 player or burn a CD or something like that.

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There's this thread. Download.com also has this to download stuff.

there's always Limewire lol.

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I have several solutions for you.

I know of www.mp3.com and download.com But all the other ones I know of are illegal.

You can download songs from CDs onto your computer.

And there is of course iTunes, which isn't free, but it is legal.

You can ask your friends, if they have songs you like, to download the songs from their computers onto a CD and then give the CD to you, for you to download the songs onto your computer. This is illegal though.

And you can go to AOL Music - they let you listen to some free songs and watch free music videos. If you were some computer mastermind you could figure out a way to manipulate AOL into downloading the songs that they let you listen to for free, but this of course would be: illegal. (I think.)

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use www.limewire.com. its actually a program, but for the most part it is legal, as long as you dont download movies. they have articles that i have read to make sure it was legal, mainly in PC World. As far as i know that is the best free songs you can get. its quite easy to get on an mp3 player from there.

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The best way would be to search the Artists site, sometimes they offer some songs for free. Or you cud search Youtube for the song and sload the accompanying video. Then extract the audio from the video. OR Illegally use torrents.

EDIT: I forgot, you cud also search for the songs on Pandora or Last.fm, or anyother similar radio-ish site for songs, and extract them. The Web is filled with pages telling you how to do it. Just Google it.

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In this world most people wish to get paid and get paid a profit for the job which they carry out. Going by this theory i would expect that there is a very limited supply of free legal music available to download on the internet.

Unless it is a new up and coming band which is releasing free singles just for the promotion which it will develop although i have seen free singles available on websites such as Bon Jovi although it is not normally the whole feature song but instead a 30 second clip for the user to get a taster of the song and hopefully be encouraged to purchase the single or the whole album when it is released.

The likeliness of a highly rated band releasing free singles onto the internet for legal downloads is therefore remotely low if it exists at all.

I wish you luck in your search for this free legal material although i would not waste your time doing so.

If you do come across such a site however make sure you post it on here for all to see,

Patrick

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You won't come across any free download sites, purely for the reason that bands will want to make a profit. But there are several sites that will allow you to stream songs for free.

I'm not sure if this is 100% correct but try searching for 'Radio Blog' (I remember my friend telling me about this recently). Here you can stream music I think.

If not, you could always search for the video on YouTube or similar or go to a legal site such as Yahoo! Music or AOL Music where you can watch music videos for free also.

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have a look on iTunes they sometimes have a free single once a week!

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