best LEGAL place to download mp3?

Hate · 4 Feb 2006 at 23:01

since i dont actually own a cd player outside my car (and even thats mp3 too!) I want to know the best place to download mp3s legally that

1) aren't DRM crippled and
2) aren't extortionate prices and
3) isn't iTunes (linux laptop)

I listen to rock and metal mainly and although i get the CDs of some of the more obscure bands, I want to get stuff on mp3 ideally...

Jotun · 4 Feb 2006 at 23:35

Are you happy to pay? Or are you just looking for places which let you download music that bands have allowed?

Probabaly a good place to look is a bands website... Often they put their few best tracks up as mp3s for download

Hate · 4 Feb 2006 at 23:53

no, i want to pay

not to keen on the legal grey area that is the russian mp3 places either

Grrrrr · 4 Feb 2006 at 23:57

I'm not a rock person but for electronic music the best places are either the record label website for tracks you're after or a genre specific download site. You'll have to do you own research for rock/metal specific sites though

Grrrrr · 5 Feb 2006 at 01:29

skiba said:
I use dodgyrussianmp3site.com Every review i've read says it is legal, it pays royalties etc. It costs on average $1.50 for an album encoded at 192kbps.

edit: didn't read your above post, I think my recommendation probably fits into the "grey area".

Being a mod must be so tedious

Every other thread in music and films has that link posted and everytime it gets deleted...

daz · 5 Feb 2006 at 13:48

Try www.wippit.com

Le Samourai · 5 Feb 2006 at 15:05

daz said:
Try www.wippit.com

Noticed that site mentioned in the latest MacUser - all about music sites and what to look out for.

I currently subscribe to eMusic (used the free 100 downloads from Winamp) and have stuck with them. I think it's independent labels though, so it's a bit hit and miss if you're looking for something in particular.

eMusic here

There's also Jamendo for Creative Commons licensed music.

Some more Creative Commons here.

Hate · 5 Feb 2006 at 15:27

half the stuff on wippit that i want is wma >_<

Reidy · 5 Feb 2006 at 18:20

legal?!?!?!?!
haha

itunes

Mattus · 5 Feb 2006 at 21:48

Reidy said:
itunes

Hate said:
3) isn't iTunes (linux laptop)

The DRM is the difficult bit. Until these companies realise that consumers simply aren't happy to pay for music which is riddled with DRM, it will be hard to find legal downloads without it.