Feb 29, 2008
Would you like 3.5 GB of amazing, free, legal, excitingly new music? Yes? Click here.
Why not discover something new–why not hear some unfamiliar music this weekend?
The South by Southwest music festival in Austin always releases lots of MP3s of artists each year, but this year did not put them together in a torrent all in one place. Luckily, Greg Hewgill did. Click here for the link to his torrent.
I love using Last.FM and Pandora to find new music, and this is another great one-off source. If you just want to browse by artist / location / song on the SXSW site, you can do that too. But this is a really awesome collection, with some really great music to be discovered from all over the country and all around the world. You should do yourself a favor and check it out. The torrent is well-seeded and you can start listening to some of the mp3s while you download!
Have a nice weekend, everyone! I will be slaving over midterms, but at least I’ll have a nice soundtrack…
Awesome! I hadn’t seen this yet so thanks for the excellent share! Hopefully it will be finished by tomorrow morning so I can slap it in the iPod for the drive to work. Thanks!
Thats a great one, definitely adding it to my torrents list. I’m always up for optimizing my productivity through some good music (if it will pass the test of sounding good, I’ll listen to it)
Hey Mattaw! Thanks for stopping by. One thing which is especially great, if you don’t feel you have time to listen through all of it to find out what you like, is to set it through Last.FM as a filter to see what of it matches up with your compatibility–Last.FM had that going for SXSW in general so that people could make it only to those performers worth their while, but you can apply the same idea for testing out the artists (I think, to some extent). My approach was to download the whole thing and just skip tracks I didn’t like, and it turned out there wasn’t too much I felt I would want to delete–so it’s all staying, adding to the ever growing collection… I just bought my first MP3 player last week, it’s waiting at home for me to experiment with. More on that later!