There are millions of songs on the web available for free. With no threat of getting sued.
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is one such site where you have no worries of the big bad bully riaa coming and stealing your lunch money.
Here are some 100% certified not gonna getcha artists:
opensound.org
boycott-riaa.com
More links:
creativecommons.org
dmusic.com
myspace.com
I just gave you more music than you know what to do with in 6 links.
Granted I’m not going to promise you that 100% of it is good, however I can say you’ll be making the artist happy when you download their music. You wont be hurting their feelings 1 bit, and as long as you’re not doing something stupid like putting the songs on a web page I don’t see any copywrite issues coming up.
In fact to be honest when I go music mining I end up skipping a lot of music just because it’s not my style. There are however once in a great while good songs, fun songs, songs that you rate a 10, and keep listening over and over. Those are rare finds. Finds you’re happy about. It’s like you have a little secret that no one else knows about.
Erm