Wired’s How-to wiki has an article called “Cheat the Music Industry: Never Pay for Music“. The article explains how to get music for free (or close to free) through various websites (some legal, some not so legal). It’s missing some good legal sites, such as Pandora, but it has a nice listing, including Lala.com, which sets up CD trading (not trading of live concert recordings, but actual CD’s), and Amie Street, a Providence-based company that sells tracks on a scaled price structure, starting at free and going up to $0.98 depending on how many downloads the song gets (the more downloads, the higher the price, capping at 98 cents).
There are some comments on the article with other sites, and LifeHacker has an article about it as well with some other sites in their comments. While I don’t listen to a whole lot of music on my computer (mainly because I’m at work and can’t really have it playing all the time), I am completely in support of internet radio and ways of getting music for free (or close to free) legally and ways of discovering new (to me) artists.
I do not suggest or support using any of the illegal or legally questionable methods of acquiring music for free.
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