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Hah, suckers! I listen to Grooveshark!

Are you old enough to remember this

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Ev...

I did the speed reading course when I was 14, still couldn't read Shakespeare, ah well.

This is awesome! All the best music in one place!

I've made this my Grooveshark playlist! See it here: http://grooveshark.com/#!/play...

You. Are. Welcome.

And for the non-sucky, non-flash version:
http://html5.grooveshark.com/#...

You. Are. Welcome.

I fucking hate flash.

This is awesome! All the best music in one place!

I've made this my Grooveshark playlist! See it here: http://grooveshark.com/#!/play...

You. Are. Welcome.

And for the non-sucky, non-flash version:
http://html5.grooveshark.com/#...

You. Are. Welcome.

I fucking hate flash.

Amazing playlist. All my favorites in one place!

Please listen at: http://grooveshark.com/#!/play...

Best. Playlist. Ever.

This is awesome! All the best music in one place!

I've made this my Grooveshark playlist! See it here: http://grooveshark.com/#!/play...

You. Are. Welcome.

I feel obligated to thank you for your nice reply. Best thing I can do is recommend an very talented metal band: Scale the Summit --> http://grooveshark.com/scalethesummit
All instrumental. Mostly acoustic. Yet still cutting edge metal. Look how far we've come.

Bah! I much prefer Glenn Gould on the piano to harpsichord recordings, although I do like them. See for yourself.

The time has come...to leave again...give out the word, abandon Earth. Activate the Noah Plan!

Yes, and that's precisely the trouble. All the big names actually like and promote indie games now, and provide their own polish to the entire experience. Because of homebrew's terrible loss of obscurity, mediocrity, and hassle, hipster douchebags have precious few places to turn in these dark times.

Frontalot explains this better than I can.

How the heck is pirating easier than opening iTunes, or searching in Amazon, and searching for the song you want, and clicking on the buy button.

Yes, easier.

The days of opening a desktop app or TPB to find a single song and instead end up with viruses or a full album download of 200MB are well behind.

1. Open html5.grooveshark.com .
2. Search
3. Click the result of interest

No buy button, no having to fill in any additional information, no having to set up an account, works in your browser (although right now it's failing in firefox, their non-HTML5 interface works, though) and mobile (have been using it on my Android device).

And yes, in many ways this is 'pirating' because Grooveshark does not have agreements with every artist/label whose material is on there; the way they work is that they respect take-down requests, knowing that users will just upload the material again anyway, and offering the artist/label a contract as an alternative where that artist/label gets a few pennies (still more than $0.00 and no expensive legal costs in having to file DMCA/or similar complaints).

It hasn't displaced Spotify (similar to Pandora) here, though, as it doesn't do any of the recommendation / user stations stuff - so for discovering new music there's still better services that shy away from 'piracy'.

no longer available in android market.

Grooveshark Anywhere states: "currently supported on phones running Android, Blackberry, Palm, Symbian". There are ways to obtain applications for an Android-powered device other than Google's market.

http://mog.com/
http://radio.com/
http://grooveshark.com/
http://last.fm/
http://zune.net/
http://rhapsody.com/
http://youtube.com/

Don't forget to add something that keeps William Shatner from making another album.

But he's so awesome!

I will hide here: http://www.jamendo.com/
Or here: http://listen.grooveshark.com/
And here: http://www.fsf.org/
And definitely here: http://creativecommons.org/
And why not here: http://www.fanfiction.net/
Or here: http://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks
... and a myriad of other places on the Internet, including those where I publish my own works.

That being said, I don't think abolishing copyright will mean the end of commercial media, since there are many other ways to make money from them. For example, most blockbuster movies make most of their profit in the first one or two weeks, and people are willing to pay a premium to see the film early, with high quality, and added value features like 3D and advanced sound systems. TV productions are almost entirely financed by advertisements, not future DVD sales. Most artists already earn most of their income from concerts, not from CD/downloadable music sales. And so on.

Check out Grooveshark, internationally available, wide and varied selection, and most importantly, FREE!!

This describes me. I used Grooveshark to find specific songs I want to hear (and you can find almost anything that's not very obscure). For just listening, I still use the Internet radio stations found at Shoutcast.

Or via Grooveshark.

Have you ever used Grooveshark?
It's in Flash and pretty gorgeous/easy to use. In fact, a lot of the functionality I really like in it like right click menus with unique options when you're about to play a song is only possible because of Flash. It takes a little bit to load, but there's a fair amount of functionality given for it, and afterwards it runs relatively fast.

XMMS 1.x is no longer supported and I hate the client/server model used in 2.x Amarok won't install without KDE and Rhythmbox is nearly unusable for my needs. Granted I am running FreeBSD. VLC is ok for most of my needs but I've been using Grooveshark lately to bolster up my music collection.

You can try out Grooveshark. It does what imeem did, but better.

For everyone outside of the US...here's the link to "Silo Lullabye" on Grooveshark. Works in Canada at least - not sure about the rest of the world. http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Silo_Lullaby/8977133

Why don't you just simply use Grooveshark?

It's really simple, available for every country and most importantly *free for all*

Oh, and.. don't tell the RIAA about the site, okay? :)

Screw Last.fm. Grooveshark has a much better offer, is less anal-retentive and is much more accessible than Last.fm. If only they would provide a plugin for Songbird (or a decent API so someone could make it), they would have a killer internet radio.