Freebies!

Who doesn’t love free stuf?  Here, I have amassed a collection of music freebies, from streaming music, to free mp3 downloads, to other cool tools you can use.  Happy surfing!

Free Song Downloads
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Downloads.com – From the best site on the internet to download free software and shareware, now a pretty extensive collection of free music!

Amazon.com – Subscribe to Amazon’s newsletter to be notified of free downloads, or peruse their home page for the freebies.  To find them, navigate to the “Special Deals” section and scroll down for the goodies that cost $0.00

Six Degrees Records - Six Degrees Records puts out some really groovy world beats that I love adding to my Spin mixes.  They give a free song from their newly released albums.  I recommend signing up for the newletter to be notified when new freebies are available.  Reading their homepage will take you to what is currently available.

MB Mixed Tape - Mercedes Benz recently reinstated their program of putting out free mixed tape downloads.  You can also access mixed tapes 1-18 at Retro’s Weblog (warning – that’s a 1.5 GB download!).

Artist Direct - Artist Direct has a pretty cool collection of music and a slick website.  Try their “Free Stuff” for something that rocks.

Cadence Revolution – You can still get an entire Spinning Playlist of Indie Music that your class will enjoy from the cool kids over at Cadence Revolution.   I love that they have added commentary for each list.

Free streams
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Musicovery – The coolest thing I have ever seen.  You pick the mood, the genre, the era, and it plays the songs.  So freaking brilliant I can’t say enough good things.  You sign up for usage, but it is free, and allows you to customize.  It learns your favorites and gets smarter about helping you find songs you will love.  Did I mention this thing is COOL?  It is fun to play with as well.

Radio David Byrne -David Byrne is an experienced musician who co-founded the Talking Heads.  He puts out a new playlist every week or so that can be a cool way to add some unusual and certainly not mainstream tunes to your collection.  He is insightful and covers a lot of territory.  Great for horizon-broadening.

Yahoo! Music – Yahoo bought my two favorite music programs of all time — Sonic Radio and MusicMatch Jukebox — to make one kick-ass music site.  Their radio tab, which is all free, allows you to customize your own radio station by rating the songs that they play for you.  You can share your radio station, listen to others and use some of the tools to find the tunes you are looking for.  Good stuff!

Free Music as Rewards
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These sites reward membership and participation with points that you can spend for many things, among them, music!

My Coke Rewards – Drinking Coke products and typing in the codes on your beverages earns you points that you can spend for Rhapsody Downloads.

Pepsi Stuff – Pepsi partnered with Amazon to bring your their rewards program.  I do not drink Pepsi, however, so I can’t tell you how it works, only that it is here. 

Light Speed Panel - When you become a member, and provide some information about yourself, you begin receiving invitations to complete marketing surveys.  After you successfully complete a survey, you are awarded points which can later be redeemed for gift certificates to Emusic, Amazon and Barnes & Noble, among others.

My Points - I am not kidding when I tell you I did almost 60% of my Christmas Shopping using My Points Rewards.  In other words, Christmas only cost me 40% of what I “spent.”  My Points rewards you for reading your email, taking advantage of their exclusive offers and shopping through their website.  They reward you with gift certificates to iTunes, Amazon, B&N, Walmart and so many others!

Other Great Stuff
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With the internet so close and the library so far and so quiet, it’s a safe bet you haven’t been to yours in a while.  However, packing up the kids and taking a field trip will be worth your while when you see all of the CDs and DVDs they have available for you to check out.  Our local library has more than I ever dreamed, covering nearly all genres and including fairly new releases.  They have especially good collections of world, jazz, classical, soundtracks that are well worth the look, even if just to try out some new flavors.  Warning — make sure you find your library card before you go!

Hope you find something you can use and if there are other sites we should all know about, please share them!!

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