If you want a neat place to get some great new music and don’t want to spend a lot of money, check out NoiseTrade.com. We introduced you to NoiseTrade a little while back, and we love it so much, we want to give you some more info on this wicked site.
It’s free. Every single song in their library is free, and the only catch is that you’ve never heard of any of the artists before.
These artists are what people call “indie” musicians, which means they’re not signed to a record label, and they can do what they want with their music – including giving it away for free. After sampling the album with the built-in widget and deciding you like it, you can help the artist out in two ways.
You can either pay what you want to the artist, with no amount too big or too small, or you can tell your friends. To do this, you put in the emails of five of your friends that you think might like the music, and NoiseTrade will send them an email telling them about the artist with a link to the site. They don’t have to do anything, not even read the email, for you to get your music. Once the emails have been sent off, you get a download link, and you’ve got your music!
I’ve downloaded a few albums from NoiseTrade, and the only downside is importing the songs into my iTunes library. Depending on what music you get, you may or may not have to rename all the songs so that they don’t look like this: 05_song_name.mp3.
Enjoy!