# good free (downloadable) music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 28, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-downloadable-music/470002 "2008-10-28T21:41:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-downloadable-music/470002/1 "2008-10-28T21:41:52Z")
Hi, all. I need new music, and I’m a cheap bastard. Can anyone recommend any good free (legal) downloadable albums? ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-downloadable-music/470002/2 "2008-10-28T23:32:34Z")
They don’t have entire albums, but [The Funny Music Project](http://www.thefump.com/) puts up new songs quite regularly. You can download them for free for the first couple weeks after they go up, and after that you can still listen to them for free on the site. \*\*\* Ponfrt ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Like\_Tears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Time\_Like\_Tears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Like_Tears)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-downloadable-music/470002/3 "2008-10-28T23:55:48Z")
The Internet Archive is full of good stuff, if you’re willing to spend some time looking for it. [Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine](http://www.archive.org/index.php) ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-downloadable-music/470002/4 "2008-10-29T00:10:16Z")
[http://www.archive.org/details/audio](http://www.archive.org/details/audio) ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-downloadable-music/470002/5 "2008-10-29T00:11:16Z")
Doh! ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-downloadable-music/470002/6 "2008-10-29T00:46:53Z")
Check out [1 Million Free and Legal Music Tracks](http://www.redferret.net/pmwiki/pmwiki.php) from the Red Ferret Journal. [jamendo](http://www.jamendo.com/en/) has shedloads of legal downloads. Quality is variable, but there’s some good stuff. I quite like the tunes Brad Sucks churns out, which you can get there or from his own [site.](http://www.bradsucks.net/) You can grab it for free or pay what you’d like on his site. [adult swim] also has four albums that are free to download: [Definitive Swim](http://www.adultswim.com/williams/music/defswim/index.html), [Warm & Scratchy](http://www.adultswim.com/williams/music/warmandscratchy/), [Ghostly Swim](http://www.adultswim.com/williams/music/ghostlyswim/index.html) and [African Swim.](http://www.adultswim.com/williams/music/africanswim/index.html) - I’m shamelessly swiping links posted on MeFi with those four. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-downloadable-music/470002/7 "2008-10-29T00:53:31Z")
Oh, and a warning. The four [adult swim] pages have embedded Flash players streaming music. ---
**Author:** ![Nunavut\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Nunavut\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunavut_Boy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-free-downloadable-music/470002/8 "2008-10-29T01:05:42Z")
Urban Outfitters has free playlists on their website. Indie rock stuff.