is there even such thing as free and legal music

[Andeeh]

Up and coming artists usually realease there earlier stuff for free on mixtapes and things. Yes you can get free and legal music there is usually promotions that enable you to optain a free mp3 download or something.

[Maatt.]

musictonic - not downloadable but free to listen to




otherwise - nope

[triston220]

I'm actually quite shocked that no-one here has mentioned Spotify.

[AgnesIO]

I'm actually quite shocked that no-one here has mentioned Spotify.

I think he means downloadable..

Otherwise there are TONS of services

[Neversoft]

Last.fm have a decent selection of freely downloadable tracks and a lot of music in the public domain is free and legal to 'obtain'.

[peteyt]

There are lots of legal programs for downloading music, but it depends on the actual music itself.

For example it took years for LimeWire to actually close down because it was actually legal. A fork of LimeWire titled FrostWire is still on the go. The important thing is what you use it for - you can download music that artists have put on themselves legally for free. I know FrostWire helps small independent artists release their stuff and I often get hold of some of it. However users often upload stuff they have bought which is illegal. So is another user downloading that as they are getting it for free instead of paying.

Like someone said its their job. I work in a supermarket and I wouldn't be happy if someone stole from it. Imagine if a supermarket lost money due to loads of people stealing and so had to cut wages, hours or something to make up for it, in other words the people whose daily job it is ending up suffering.

I know people also say that bands make most of their money from touring and merchandise. While this is true, and the record labels often take a lot of money from actual music sales, if no one bought their music and everyone just illegally downloaded it, then the band might think no one liked it and could possibly split. It's why I also hate people who say downloading films is bad but downloading TV shows are okay - yeah they may get revenue from advertising and other forms of revenue, but if no one actually watches it live, the figures will drop and lead to a cancellation.