Free Music - Legal Ways to Download

... Sometimes they are packaged as a music video. Some of the online music download sites will provide songs and albums for free but there is a catch - you have to listen to an advertisement before downloading your song. But who cares? It’s worth it to save a buck per song. Then there are sites that provide free music downloads with no ads at all. But there is still a catch (isn’t there always?). You have to be a college student with an edu email address. Another type of site lets you stream music on-demand. Of course, you cannot actually download the songs like you can with MP3 based sites. But you can listen all day long for free. Some will even let you select the songs you want to hear and setup a playlist. Another possibility to download free music is from oldies archives. These sites catalog songs that were recorded many years ago and have been made available in the public domain. If you are into oldies type music, these sites could be for you. ... Free music usually brings questions of legal issues to mind. That’s because several years ago, the RIAA launched a legal challenge to music sharing sites and the people that downloaded music without paying for it. The claim was copyright infringement, and record producers pushed the cases as far as legally possible in order to stop the practice. So can you still download free music without all the legal hassles? The answer is yes ...