MetaFilter posts tagged with download

Bootlegs ahoy

pompomtom — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:18:22 -0800

I don't know how these people got their fairly decent recording devices into a bunch of gigs... but I can guess why. ...and I'm pretty sure I was at that Church gig...

Dangerous trap, high difficulty map, and unexpected situation wait for you.

CrunchyFrog — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:53:04 -0800

Holdover is a difficult but compelling exploration platform game. Marie must escape from an abandoned scientific research installation, with no assistance other than recordings left by her father decades ago. Makes extensive and very good use of the "hold your breath" mechanics found in many such games. Available both in Japanese and bad English. A more reasonable English translation can be downloaded from the IndieGames weblog and dropped into the game's folder. Has some nudity and a little blood. Recommended for ages 15+. Maps and Japanese-language walkthroughs can be found by clicking "Capture" on the Holdover home page.

How about this stimulus package?

P.o.B. — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:37:51 -0800

Del The Funky Homosapien has two song packs available for free download. His newest album, Funk Man (the stimulus package), is available for the price of your email. All available at Bandcamp.

So put your good dress on

divabat — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:31:41 -0800

We Are Smug is the side project of former Savage Garden frontman turned electropop showman Darren Hayes and collaborator and fellow electronic musician Robert Conley. Hayes and Conley had been working on this project secretly for about two years before releasing it online for free on Hayes's birthday. There are no current plans to tour or sell this album, aside from the free download, but there are already official music videos. (Warning: last link potentially triggering.)

The Best Off the Web

msalt — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:09:53 -0800

Alec Duffy won all rights to Sufjan Stevens' song "Lonely Man of Winter" in a contest (traded for the rights to his winning song). Rather than sell or blog it, he's having private listening parties with a handful of guests each Wednesday night in Brooklyn through Feb. 25th. Here's why. You can hear his winning entry, the vaguely Magnetic-Fieldsy Every Day Is Christmas, but so far, he has kept Stevens' song offline. Some people are angry about these "little asshat tea parties." The closest most of us can get are listener descriptions from Annie Scott ("lovely"), and Jessica Suarez ("gorgeous"). Sufjan said of the winning song: "It feels, at once, like a classic show tune, the perfect parlor song, a bar ballad, and a church hymn. It is unencumbered with the pejoratives and prophetic exclamations of Christmas, the most complicated of holidays."

WFMU's Free Music Archive

cog_nate — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:56:37 -0800

WFMU's Free Music Archive, "an online digital library of music that will allow music fans, webcasters and podcasters to listen, download, and stream for free, with no restrictions, registration or fees. And it will all be legal." Still pre-launch, but there's already quite a bit of music available on the site, including a sampler CD.

uncrazyfrog: toneshared ringtone library

nthdegx — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:08:48 -0800

toneshared is a library of free mobile phone ringtones made by electronica/alternative musicians. From the subtle to the mashed to the downright annoying.

G-Archiver discloses username/password

krautland — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:29:05 -0800

G-Archiver is a windows shareware app that backs up your gmail account to your local harddrive. it also does something far more sinister: it emails your username and password to the creator of the program. (via)

Geek Pop 08 Science Songs

algreer — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:36:37 -0800

Geek Pop '08. Online science music festival at the Null Hypothesis science blog, with mp3 downloads. Featuring the immense Dark Matter by Johnny Berliner. It can be downloaded as a fat 30min mp3, or the individual songs can be downloaded by clicking on the artists names.

Trent Reznor keeps on his promise

booticon — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:37:43 -0800

Trent Reznor releases a new Nine Inch Nails album out of the fucking blue called Ghosts. The first 9 tracks are free, and it's on The Pirate Bay. The whole thing is $5 (with a slew of other order options) which you can get on their website (which is getting hammered right now), or on Amazon. The digital downloads are 320kbps MP3/FLAC/Apple Lossless. All DRM-free. $5 for the digital download. $10 for the 2CD album, including a link to the digital download. $75 for the Deluxe Edition Package, which includes the album in a fabric slip-cover case, a DVD with the album in multi-track format, and a Bluray disc with the music accompanied by a slideshow. Oh, and there's the $300 ultra-deluxe limited edition (limited to 2,500 units) which includes more shit.

Thrift Store DJ -- The Continuing Search for Vinyl Castaways

cog_nate — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:29:44 -0800

Hungry for some retro and slightly offbeat music? Visit Thrift Store DJ (owned and operated by Metafilter member Otis) and download or listen to streams of albums from many different genres such as Bossa Nova, Caribbean, Exotica, Flamenco, General Fruitiness, Greek, Hawaiian, Latin, Mambo, and Polka. Via (in a roundabout way)

Free, legal music downloads

The Deej — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:21:39 -0800

Is the music industry embracing free, legal music downloads? Qtrax is now in beta.

Now, Listen! Ninjatune podcasts...

nthdegx — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:13:27 -0800

Ninjatune podcasts including Coldcut and Big Dada podcasts, a Ninjacast which delves into the record crates of various ninja artists, and of course a Solid Steel podcast with 60-odd mixes available.

Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream

nthdegx — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:53:08 -0800

"Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream is an OverClocked ReMix Album featuring free fan arrangements from the soundtrack to Square's legendary Final Fantasy VII for the Sony Playstation."

The return of the singles club

MrMerlot — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:07:33 -0800

First the Sub Pop Single of the week club brought us Nirvana, then the Moshi Moshi Singles Club, brought us Kate Nash; now more and more labels are having a go. What's more, the kids are buying seven inch singles again. Is this a backlash against digital downloads? Or just nostalgia for the 45?

Fuck Yuo I am a Robot

nthdegx — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:33:58 -0800

Fuck Yuo I Am a Robot are offering their album Compensator for the Accelerator for free download from their site. Infectious ass-shakin' Estonian electro-pop. Lyrics to track 2 NSFW, likewise sleeve art jpgs if you opt for the .zip download. You can sample one of the tracks, Hydraulic, on YouTube if you don't know them and would like to check them out first, though personally I can't get enough of Zukunft (direct mp3 link).

OK Computer's 10 year tribute

puddleglum — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:14:15 -0800

OK X - Radiohead's OK Computer covered by 12 modern artists. Free download.

Planed by Gilbert & George

jack_mo — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:15:20 -0800

Planed - a new work by Gilbert & George, available for download until 11:35pm on the 10th of May.

Presumed Lost

aaronetc — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:30:50 -0800

The major label machine sucks in and churns out young bands all the time, leaving plenty of good music unheard by the public. Boston's trip-hoppy Splashdown were one of the acts brought low by this process, disbanding two years after Capitol decided not to release their major label debut LP. The late 90's were a commercially bad time for female-fronted electro-pop, of course, but the band found an outlet for their material by releasing it for free online -- their whole catalog, including three LP's, two EP's and some double-secret-unreleased tracks, is available with the band's blessing. Members have since joined other bands -- Freeze pop, Universal Hall Pass -- which hopefully will avoid the trouble Splashdown had.

2007 Independent Games Festival Finalists

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:40:50 -0800

2007 Independent Games Festival Finalists. Most have downloadable demo and full versions (on the PC, anyway). Share and enjoy.

Iannis Xenakis Lives On

hama7 — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:15:57 -0800

Iannis Xenakis Lives On

And While London Burns - an operatic guided tour of London

headlessness — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:38:52 -0800

"Bathed in fire, flood, love and turmoil And While London Burns is a compelling collision of thriller, opera and guided walk."

Allofmp3 Battle the World

rongorongo — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:56:08 -0800

AllofMP3 gets a copyright lawyer to help with their FAQ but with Russia's entry to the WTO apparently at stake and Putin getting involved their future looks a bit perilous.

New kids on the block

pfafflin — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:08:35 -0800

Amie Street: "[A] recently launched music Web site that carries independent -- and mostly little-known -- artists, is trying an unusual model for selling music. Instead of selling songs at one fixed price, the site determines prices for songs based on how frequently they're downloaded." [WSJ link].

PenguinBukkake — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:15:26 -0800

P2P is a sin [bugmenot]