Where To Go to find Free Music

Finding Free Music on The Internet

Finding free music on the internet is easy... Of course it's illegal...That is not what this article is about...File sharing is morally wrong and unethical. I'm not into that at all.. I am into giving my own music away... This has been my practice since 2003.

Sure you can listen (stream) music all day long. But where do you go to download it? And why would any artist give away his music for free anyways. I mean how could all of these musicians become rich and their record companies even richer if folks are giving away music?

Well that's an understatement... I have made very little money giving it away....But the point of this article is to discuss my brainstorm of a way to market music by simply giving it away to get exposure. Getting your music heard in today's market is like next to impossible.

Tons of Unheard Music

There are tons of bands' with great songs I hear all the time that will never hear the light of day because the competition is so great and everybody is looking for a "record contract. You have a one in a million chance unless you just got that great niche of a song that is gonna catch somebody in the industry that see's the possibility of making money with it...Often at the artist's expense.

Some Musicians Don't Own their Songs!

That's what has been happening for years right? Musicians often don't even "own" their own songs... They are the ones that put the music and words together...But they don't own it... Some record executive cat does... Isn't that strange?

But if new and even established artists were to start giving away free music on the internet wouldn't that throw a wrench in the works. You really wouldn't have to give away full studio versions of the music...But simply "demo"s to promote your true record that you recorded in the studio. But to get that exposure you simply give music away. At no charge.

But What About Getting Paid For My Music?

Then there are those who argue about their work getting "stolen" by another musician. As I have read...All musicians are thief's. It's all been played before...There is nothing new under the sun they say... That's just the way it is...Some things will never change. (see what I mean?)

So you put your songs up on the internet.. Your giving it away for free. Somebody else downloads it and then reworks it and says they wrote it. Take it to a record company and make millions.. You get to hear YOUR song being played by somebody else on the radio and nobody knows the difference. OH the HUMANITY!

Copyright Issues?

But then you know it was you who wrote it...And the fact that you have the music up on a server online is a simple enough copyright for me. Any digital file from a picture to this article is automatically copyrighted.

Want My Music - Go Right Ahead.

If people wanted play or re-record my pitiful little songs...Go right ahead... I'd love to hear what you do with it. And perhaps it would get me more exposure or at least some more visits to my site so I can let folks hear my years of recordings, shows and demo's that I have on miles of tape. The more traffic to my site and blog - The better.
So this is my Free Music marketing plan...

• Talk and blog about my music and songs.
  
• Keep digitizing old lo-fi recording and work on better new versions and new songs.
  
• Record them on my little digital 8 track recorder.
• Offer ALL of it up on the internet for free.
  

So the goal of this free music marketing plan is to simply get my songs some exposure and get some traffic to my websites and blogs..And friends sites too so that we can spread around a better world of more accessible music... All because we love creating it..