{"id":14565,"date":"2003-09-24T03:43:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/24\/free-legal-music-downloads-from-local-and\/"},"modified":"2003-09-24T03:43:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-24T03:43:00","slug":"free-legal-music-downloads-from-local-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/24\/free-legal-music-downloads-from-local-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Free &amp; Legal Music Downloads from Local and Independent Bands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a> (which has all but replaced CNN as my primary news source of late) has a <a href=\"http:\/\/mp3.washingtonpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">server full of free MP3s<\/a> available for your listening pleasure. No P2P software required, no RIAA goons breathing down your neck, and no Britney Spears\/Avril Lavigne\/Jewel. Just lots of independent artists who want you to discover them, many of which are truly worth discovering. From the celebrated political humor of the Capitol Steps to the &ldquo;bathroom a capella&rdquo; of Da Vinci&rsquo;s Notebook, there is something here for everybody. <\/p>\n<p>Folks, it&rsquo;s fine and good to bash the RIAA, but here&rsquo;s your chance to help marginalize them completely. Ditch Britney, support indie music instead. Download some stuff here, find a band you like, then go see them play a gig at some intimate venue with a $5-10 cover charge, or maybe even free. Buy their album directly from them. You will hear more interesting music, you will help feed a starving musician, and you will piss off the RIAA and Clear Channel Communications all at the same time. What&rsquo;s not to like?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106437503090098986?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post (which has all but replaced CNN as my primary news source of late) has a server full of free MP3s available for your listening pleasure. No P2P software required, no RIAA goons breathing down your neck, and no Britney Spears\/Avril Lavigne\/Jewel. Just lots of independent artists who want you to discover them, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/24\/free-legal-music-downloads-from-local-and\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free &amp; Legal Music Downloads from Local and Independent Bands&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}