Free music!

Spotify - have you tried it? I've been dredging my memory banks for old teenage albums. The first Supertramp one, now Babe Ruth! Anybody remember them? It's all there! Free - well with odd adverts but between tracks... Go Try.

Also free music to learn. I was looking about for some classical guitar music and stumbled across some sites I'd recommend if you want to learn some classical stuff.

http://www.oreshko.co.uk/classical.htm
http://dirk.meineke.free.fr/classical2.html
http://8notes.com/guitar_sheet_music.asp

Amazing this internet thingy isn't it... :-)

Comments

  1. Candy's daily Dandy5 June 2009 at 12:42

    Yup, just like finding a four-leaf clover for real!

    I will pass this on to my boy, he of the Fender Strat...and really getting into it right about now.

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  2. Mondo5 June 2009 at 16:18

    I tried Spotify - good, but not many of the obscurities I was looking for - My fave Interweb gadget is the software that strips audio from youtube clips, Oh yes all those live performances and hard to find rarities can be ripped and stripped into mp3.

    Free too, if you know where to look

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  3. Istvanski5 June 2009 at 21:53

    Is Spotify similar to Last.fm? Is it still by invitation only?

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  4. Furtheron6 June 2009 at 08:23

    Don't know Last.fm - Spotify wasn't by invitation when I was used it.

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