Bob posted about a seemingly (but not) cool Best Buy music promotion he encountered at Best Buy. Basically, you’re offered 14 free music downloads at the check out counter. Cool, right? To get them, you have to leave Best Buy’s site, and head to Rhapsody’s site. Then you have to download Rhapsody software…then you have to pre-subscribe to it (you can’t just get the free version)…there are something like 10 hoops to leap through before you get anything resembling an MP3 file. Sucky.
Bob followed that post up with advice to indie bands on how to use free downloads in an efficient, and value-adding way (i.e. collect an email address). Interesting.
It all reminded me that I wanted to write up a list of the many sources of good, free indie music downloads that are out there… Maybe that’d be a good holiday post..?
Where do you get your free music? And how do you "shop" for (or learn about) new bands?
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