The Music Web FAQ

What about free downloads?

Artists often offer one or two songs free, since this helps to promote themselves and their songs, and hopefully encourages listeners to purchase albums. In other cases, the artist or record company can make many songs available to listen to free, but ‘mark’ each songs so that it will only play three times before you’re required to purchase it. 

“Weed” is one service that does this, with the added benefit that when people purchase songs that you shared with them, then you receive 20 percent of the purchase price. Also, many sites will also allow you to stream music for free, but charge if you would like to download it. Download.com’s Music section also contains a large collection of free downloads: http://music.download.com

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