Free choons
An insert in today’s Independent from emusic offers 25 free music downloads. You sign up with a credit card for a 14-day trial and then are billed after that if you don’t cancel your account. Haven’t spotted a catch.
I’ve helped myself to ‘With’ by Infantjoy and have 13 downloads left. Anybody recommend any essential tunes?
Posted on October 26th, 2006 at 5:09pm under Culture, media and sport
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It’s a general offer rather than being restricted to Independent readers; I’ve also signed up, and also can’t find a catch.
Downloaded anything good?
I’ve been a member since they relaunched in 2003. John Walkenbach of the great J-Walk Blog is a great fan and often posts his recent downloads (as I do on my sidebar, when I get the chance). It’s a great place for discovering unknown or little known bands. I highly recommend it and there is no catch. You get unlimited downloads, no DRM, you can copy them whenever and wherever and listen to them on any player. I aso use ALLofMP3 as well- very naughty I know but cheap, or what?
I’ev been a member of eMusic since 2000. It costs about £15 a month for 90 tracks (I get it cheaper as an old customer).
What’s there depends on your tastes in music. If it’s stuff issued by the big music companies, then it probably won’t be there. If it’s stuff from independents, then it will cost you a fortune as there is a quite fabulous amount of stuff.
For those who want to try something intersting, check Yo La Tengo, Richard Youngs, Current 93, the new Scott Walker, Sunno))), pretty much anything by Robert Wyatt, Guided By Voices……..
I can’t see myself subscribing, to be honest; I’m having enough difficulty choosing my 25 free tracks, so it’s going to be nigh-on impossible to download more than that each month.
So far, I’ve downloaded Arular by MIA; I realise, however, that it’s an acquired taste.
Essential tunes? Personally, I can’t get enough of “Sleep” by Godspeed You Black Emperor at the moment. Buggered if I knew if it’s available on emulewhateveritscalled, though. I’m a bad person so I use Limewire.
Oo! I think I know this one: the catch is that, like an increasing proportion of so-called “free” material online, it is denied to those without a credit/debit card.
Incidentally, I note that the nice people at Maestro are now marketing their scheme as “the new cash”, just in case those who rely on cash get any ideas above their station.
That is all.
Oh, and another thing Michael Z. If you are, as i was, frustrated by the increasing crapness of Limewire, may I commend to you the succulent Frostwire, the true inheritor of Limewire’s open-source mantle, by some of the same coders.
That really is all.
Well thanks a bundle, Brissenden. There’s me thinking I was sticking it to The Man when it turns out I’m merely reinforcing social exclusion.
So, having a Visa Electron card makes me the moral equivalent of Gordon Brown? I need another drink.