can anyone recomend any good sites to download music. i like house and dance music and indie music.

would also like legal advise what is legal and what isnt nowadays..???? is filesharing legal?? e.g. winmx etc ???

confused

filesharing and winmx are illegal

legally some bands will allow you to downlaod a song or 2. Amazon have a few you can download.

Basically if a site claims to be legal and then says its free then it aint legal.

Legal sites

Real
ITunes
MSN

thanks for the response

winmx has now been closed down along with a few others!!

:(

Just a note to say, make sure this keeps to legal downloading.

Originally posted by robbie
filesharing and winmx are illegal

legally some bands will allow you to downlaod a song or 2. Amazon have a few you can download.

Basically if a site claims to be legal and then says its free then it aint legal.

Legal sites

Real
ITunes
MSN

Technically winmx itself is not illegal, you can quite happily share things that you own the copyright too (ie something recorded in your garage). Making available or downloading things to which you don't own the copyright is the illegal behaviour, although a civil offence, not a criminal one.

Originally posted by dinkdankdo10
i like house and dance music and indie music.


In that case you might like Bleep (a download site set up by Warp Records which now features lots more labels) and Trax2Burn.

http://www.bleep.com

http://www.trax2burn.com

You may find more sites you might like here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/netmusic/page/0,13368,1127237,00.html

The one bad thing about download music legally is the fact its still damned expensive... I'm sorry but the fact remains that the reason CD's are so expensive is supposedly due to the costs of manufacuring and distribution... so if your removing BOTH those factors surely the songs should be a LOT cheaper than they cost on CD?

Yes, I know they have to pay for bandwidth and server space... but these days those things are SO cheap it certainly doesn't cost anywhere near as much as making and distributing CD's...

One place I used to use was allofmp3.com but their legallity is very much in question, and infact I believe they are now most definitly illegal because I believe the Russian music authorities have changed now... but oh well...

I wont get onto the legal download bandwagon until they decide to stop raping us with stupid prices, I buy my fair share of CD's anyways, just usually only in sales and almost always online where HMV and Virgin etc aren't raping you at £10 - £15 a CD!

I don't pay for music but thats becasue i'm only 16. you can get free mp3 from unsinged artits from http://music.download.com/ they also have some well know bands like bloc party but they only have a few mp3's for the well known bands.