Better, cheaper, legal MP3 sites?

[Perpetual Change]

Looking for something better than cheaper and with more selection than Amazon or iTunes. Anyone got anything good?

[pogoowner]

My brother seems to always get great deals from eMusic. They offer him free songs all the time to keep him coming back.

[wolfking]

https://www.mp3va.com/

https://justmusicstore.com/

Bought heaps of things from mp3va.

[Marvellous G]

I highly doubt this is legal, but it's IN THE NAME so I can at least plead ignorance if it's not: https://www.legalsounds.com/

Been using it for years and in some ways it's frustrating, but it's very cheap.

[faemir]

buy CDs?

[Marvellous G]

buy CDs?

But yeah, this. Nothing compares.

[Jamesman42]

buy CDs?

College student (same here).

[Jamesman42]

https://www.mp3va.com/

Hmm, they have some obscure Christian stuff, ALL of Neal Morse's stuff, but they don't have the newest Thrice. Interesting. But dang, they still have a lot.

I know what I'll be doing with my last paycheck of the year.

[faemir]

buy CDs?

College student (same here).

I find CDs to be cheaper than albums mostly.

[Jamesman42]

On that site? No, that's like a tenth of the price of an album. Maybe even less for some stuff.

[faemir]

*checks website*

Those albums are suspiciously cheap.

I never buy digital unless it's a digital release only anyway - I want mah CDs. If I can't afford the cd well...

[Progmetty]

CDs became a to bitch store and take care of, I've submitted my will to the digital age long ago.

[Perpetual Change]

buy CDs?

Shipping to HK usually runs over $10 US so that's out.

[El Barto]

CDs became a to bitch store and take care of, I've submitted my will to the digital age long ago.

Personally, I love having to wear gloves to handle my CDs and hearing them skip when I try to listen to music in my car, knowing that there'll be a nice, pretty scratch on it when I hit eject. 

If I had to pick 5 people to die a miserable death, the dickhead who saddled us all with optical media easily makes the cut.  CDs and DVDs (and probably blue-ray, but I damn sure won't be finding out) are all crap. 

[Fluffy Lothario]

My brother used to download from a Russian website that was horrendously cheap. Though I don't think it was legal.

[Perpetual Change]

https://www.mp3va.com/

This site seems awesome. Downloading like 5 new albums now for $5, including the new Blaze, Alter Bridge, and Intronaut. The US rule that MP3's HAVE to be at least .89 cents or whatever is really dumb

[Sigz]

Intronaut

YESSSSSSSSSSSS

[Marvellous G]

My brother used to download from a Russian website that was horrendously cheap. Though I don't think it was legal.

I'm pretty sure that's Legalsounds. And I'm pretty sure you're right. 

[Fluffy Lothario]

No, the website was a .ru. As in, "www.bigfatdonkeydildo.ru".

From a quick search, both mp3va and legalsounds are both completely legal.

[Jamesman42]

https://www.mp3va.com/

This site seems awesome. Downloading like 5 new albums now for $5, including the new Blaze, Alter Bridge, and Intronaut. The US rule that MP3's HAVE to be at least .89 cents or whatever is really dumb

So it's legit? I have $30 to spare and would like in on this, so...

[faemir]

CDs became a to bitch store and take care of, I've submitted my will to the digital age long ago.

Personally, I love having to wear gloves to handle my CDs and hearing them skip when I try to listen to music in my car, knowing that there'll be a nice, pretty scratch on it when I hit eject. 

If I had to pick 5 people to die a miserable death, the dickhead who saddled us all with optical media easily makes the cut.  CDs and DVDs (and probably blue-ray, but I damn sure won't be finding out) are all crap. 

To be fair, blu-rays are REALLY hard to scratch, because Sony were clever.

Most of my PS3 games are preowned. Not one scratch. Yup.

[lordxizor]

https://www.mp3va.com/

This site seems awesome. Downloading like 5 new albums now for $5, including the new Blaze, Alter Bridge, and Intronaut. The US rule that MP3's HAVE to be at least .89 cents or whatever is really dumb

So it's legit? I have $30 to spare and would like in on this, so...

I somehow doubt it's legit in the US, though I don't know for sure.

[Sigz]

Service meets the requirements of the majority of the states of the Europe and the USA, although it is not possible to guarantee the legality of the work of Service in all States. In such rare instances the responsibility for use of Service lies with the user.

[wolfking]

https://www.mp3va.com/

This site seems awesome. Downloading like 5 new albums now for $5, including the new Blaze, Alter Bridge, and Intronaut. The US rule that MP3's HAVE to be at least .89 cents or whatever is really dumb

I have only used them once.  I spent I think $50 and it gave me about $85 worth of credit.  I downloaded about 60 albums without a problem.

I use a prepaid credit card and only keep a couple of hundred dollars on it, so I'm not too worried about security to be honest.  I used the site about 3 months ago and haven't had any problems since.  But I cannot guarantee how safe it is.

PS: I tried sending you a PM back, but your inbox is full.

[Birch Boy]

No, the website was a .ru. As in, "www.bigfatdonkeydildo.ru".

Should be embarrassed to say that I clicked that?

[Ħ]

I know this Russian website where you can get songs for 2 cents a piece.  The only thing is all the songs are in Russian.

[juice]

https://www.mp3va.com/

This site seems awesome. Downloading like 5 new albums now for $5, including the new Blaze, Alter Bridge, and Intronaut. The US rule that MP3's HAVE to be at least .89 cents or whatever is really dumb

So it's legit? I have $30 to spare and would like in on this, so...

From the site

"Service meets the requirements of the majority of the states of the Europe and the USA, although it is not possible to guarantee the legality of the work of Service in all States. In such rare instances the responsibility for use of Service lies with the user."

[ariich]

No, the website was a .ru. As in, "www.bigfatdonkeydildo.ru".

Should be embarrassed to say that I clicked that?

Me too, but the site doesn't exist.

But yeah I know the site you mean Fluffy, and I'm 90% certain it wasn't legal in the US or UK. Nice to see that these ones are though.

[ZKX-2099]

I can get music pretty cheap from Google.com.

[Perpetual Change]

https://www.mp3va.com/

This site seems awesome. Downloading like 5 new albums now for $5, including the new Blaze, Alter Bridge, and Intronaut. The US rule that MP3's HAVE to be at least .89 cents or whatever is really dumb

So it's legit? I have $30 to spare and would like in on this, so...

Well, I'm using it now, and so far I'm still kinda unclear on the legality. Everywhere on the website SAYS that it is legal. But it still seems to good to be true. For example, as was pointed out to me in a PM, how could the possibly own the license to the DT official bootlegs?

The site seems to operate on a huge gray area, honestly. The site has been up and running for 4 years, though. I personally bought the subscription ($15 USA) and I don't plan on adding more, but that's okay since this will take me awhile.

[Jamesman42]

Yeah, you'd think if they were no legal, after 4 years something would have happened.

I'm thinking about the $30 package (getting an extra $10 to spend). I can easily spend that much, I think.

I actually think I bought SC on this website right before it came out a few years ago lol.

[Perpetual Change]

After spending about an hour researching, I've come to the following conclusion: these sites are an heir to sites like the old  allofMP3.com of a few years ago. Basically, that site figured out a way to sell MP3s cheaper than amazon or iTunes thanks to some kind of loophole in some law somewhere. A couple years ago, some big labels tried to sue allofMP.com, but the charges were dropped. The sites went down by their own volition during that process, but since a bunch of have risen up.

Basically, these places shell out for this massive license that covers a lot of different music, and then you contibute to that license by paying $15. Technically, you're supposed to be even more careful about what you do with MP3s gained at this price for this reason, but my knowledge literally ends here. If anyone knows what's really up, I'd be more than appreciative. Google search does not seem to yield more results. Going by what this particular site seems to carry, though, I really wouldn't be surprised if they don't have the license for a lot of stuff.

That's about all I know.

[ariich]

Pretty interesting stuff, cheers for the info Joe!

[faemir]

I can get music pretty cheap from Google.com.

Learnt how to use the type of file search?

[Fiery Winds]

I know this Russian website where you can get songs for 2 cents a piece.  The only thing is all the songs are in Russian.

Thanks for the input, Dwight.  I bet the next thing you'll tell me to do is put this case on my mp3 player and it will survive a toss on the ground.