While technically not against their privacy policy (http://web.arch...es/privacy.aspx) SpiralFrog sold their entire email list to spammers. Starting on June 7th I have now received over 250 spam emails at the address I used to register for them. I know they sold it since I used a unique email address when registering.

I hate spam!

I also don’t want to pay for my music. Call me cheap, but when you’re a teen, money is limited.

So it’s definitely a pity Spiralfrog’s dead. Does anyone know about any other free (legal) sites?

I’m NOT looking for music search engines (beemp3, umusicdownloads, etc) whose quality is usually less than fantastic, and who also tend to have viruses!

You ALL pretty much have decided that it’s ok to DL songs for free and not pay for them. Now you are pissing and moaning because the company who owns the recording won’t release them. What incentive do they have. They are in business to make money not give it to you for free.

The changes you are seeing the music world is just the start. I presume that all bands will move to the net as the only means of distribution of their music. I also am willing to bet that they give it away free and just go on tour to make money. That will SIGNIFICANTLY reduce the number of bands. Bands are also businesses, they require money (though less today than in the past) to record, to write music, and to basically not have to go to a day job to eat.

You complain that they don’t release older music. Then be willing to realize that getting it for free isn’t going to stimulate someone to spend money. Oh and by the way. There are serious costs involved in setting up a site, paying the hosting costs bandwidth etc… That’s not free.

So what you are asking is for a business who has investors, oh like someones parent or grandparents or you, to pay good money to make the recording, put the recording up on the site that costs them money to build, and then pay monthly just so you all can have the music for free?

Granted it doesn’t cost as much as it used to for these things, but they aren’t free.

That makes as much sense as you paying for your home leaving the front door open and then having everyone come over and pay you nothing while they camp out in your house. Using the electricity you pay for, your food etc… Why would you do that? Then why would a music company give it away for nothing?

YOU figure out how to incent them to release old music for free? You figure that out and you will make a pile of money. You will need it to pay for that 24 hour party at your house with everyone living there for free.

Wake up and Smell the Coffee.

PS I think the old style music companies are dead. Mainly because the failed at embracing the internet, but also because everyone out there decided that it was ok in their world view to steal from them. In the end it will be interesting to see if real music continues to be made after there is no one to bankroll the band while they create that music.

You reap what you sow in this case…