Yep there is a huge amount of music that the artists want you to download and discuss. The national youth radio station in Australia http://www.triplejunearthed.com/ has set up an database of unsigned artists and their MP3's. People rate, discuss, and if it's good it gets played nationally thr ultimate in peer review. I personally know several artists who use this to get more people to their gigs/ webpages so that they don't have to sign up with the devil. Their work is still copyright, they just choose to share it so more people can hear it - then more people come to the gigs/webpages, more people buy their self produced CD's --- more money to the artist.
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Yep there is a huge amount of music that the artists want you to download and discuss. The national youth radio station in Australia http://www.triplejunearthed.com/ has set up an database of unsigned artists and their MP3's. People rate, discuss, and if it's good it gets played nationally thr ultimate in peer review. I personally know several artists who use this to get more people to their gigs/ webpages so that they don't have to sign up with the devil. Their work is still copyright, they just choose to share it so more people can hear it - then more people come to the gigs/webpages, more people buy their self produced CD's --- more money to the artist.