SXSW 2010 on BitTorrent: 3.35 GB of Free Music

Ernesto
March 6, 2010
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The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is one of the largest and most popular in the United States. For the sixth year in a row, SXSW has released a DRM-free, RIAA-safe collection of hundreds of songs which can all be downloaded for free in a couple of clicks, thanks to BitTorrent.

sxsw 2010 Since 2005 the SXSW music festival has published thousands of free tracks from participating artists. For some of the previous editions, SXSW itself has offered torrents for the artist showcases, but since 2008 this task has been delegated to the public.

Since all of the MP3s are available for download on the festival’s site, it only takes one person to get a torrent up and running.

In 2008 it was Greg Hewgill who took the time and effort to put all the MP3s into one big torrent, and for the 2009 and 2010 editions Ben Stolt has done the same. Torrents of the previous editions have been a huge success and were downloaded more than 100,000 times.

All the tracks have been made available by the artists themselves which means that they are totally RIAA-safe. The first release of the 2010 SXSW edition contains 646 tracks totaling 3.35 GB. A second batch with another 200+ tracks is expected to be released in the near future (edit: it was released a few hours ago).

The torrents include tracks from upcoming as well as established artists in nearly all music genres one can think of. If you’re in for a musical journey at no expense it is absolutely a recommended download.

This year’s SXSW music festival takes place between March 17-21 in Austin Texas. All the tracks released for the previous editions are also still available for those people who want to fill up their iPod without having to invest tens of thousands of dollars.

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?

Can’t understand why they don’t make the torrent themselves. Maybe they like knowing who are the popular artists.
Sendaii

Brilliant, I’ll check it out. I love indie music.
Anonymous

thats great………
Taylor

Sweet, I’ll seed all day. DRM free, legal goodness.
Phoenix

ouch !
hard clap for RIAA
binladen

wrong link? its 2010 now
ROLF

nice one.

go on like that.
Fellatio

Why would you download this AWFUL COMPILATION. All the bands are ones that noe ones heard of apart from their 10 fans (who also happen to be their friends from high school).

Seems to me it’s free because no one in their right mind would pay for it – I mean, sure, they’ll get a few downloads because when it’s free people will do that but in all seriousness don’t bother. The good music is made by bands that are good enough to have albums you can buy so download that instead.

Shame on TF for encouraging this awful music, for shame.
binladen

#8
known > good?

stick to top40 brah
Sendaii

@8: Known ? good

Just because an artist isn’t a corporate whore, that does not mean that they do not produce good music. Get your head out of your arse and try listening to something that isn’t chart music. You might find that you like it.
Leo Ghost

Link to the 2010 torrent page:
http://sites.google.com/site/sxswtorrent/2010

Nice tip off, Torrent Freak :)
Fellatio

“Just because an artist isn’t a corporate whore, that does not mean that they do not produce good music. Get your head out of your arse and try listening to something that isn’t chart music. You might find that you like it.”

Oh I listen to gangsta rap, hardstyle, techno and hard trance pretty much exclusively.

I would hardly call most of the artists I listen to “corporate whores”. However the artists that are represented by major labels have “made it”, they’re music is of such quality that enough people like it to be worthwhile to a major label (who after all are really only interested in the bottom line).

However unlike you I don’t automatically catagorise “chart music” as crap, it just means lots of people like it.

Many people, particuarly hipsters, goths, emos and rebels living with their parents who have a “problem” with their oh so hard life (LOL) base their musicla tastes on how unpopular a band is. Often times the reason teh band is unpopular or not well known is because thet are generic, crap or both – so these try hards lose out all round an dthen have the gall to pretend they are connissuers (even though they only like the music because it’s not popular, not because of the music).

The fact that these “bands” are free indicates no one will buy their “music” – which indicates they are rubbish. If last years (or was it 2008? cant recall) SXSW free music was any guide I’d say this will be typically just awful, generic sounding music by people who frankly should get a real job and treat the “Band” as the hobby it should be.
redmarine

Over 1000 legal and drm free music? That’s crazy!
kottonface

@8 Why do you feel the need to down indie artist. All those major label bands were “indie” at one point, they didn’t just start out huge. So shame goes upon you Fellatio, for downing these artist. I don’t see you on national popular festival or with any albums for that matter. I praise TF for this, I wouldn’t have never known about this had it not been for this article. So…if you would Fellatio why don’t you go troll and another site, this one is for people with at least half a brain.

“The fact that these “bands” are free indicates no one will buy their “music” – which indicates they are rubbish. If last years (or was it 2008? cant recall) SXSW free music was any guide I’d say this will be typically just awful, generic sounding music by people who frankly should get a real job and treat the “Band” as the hobby it should be.”

The fact that they give there music only shows that they want to people to hear it. I am happy to meet a psychic though…I’ve never meet someone who has heard every song ever and knows whether it’s good or not. Please do everyone a favor and just typing…you’ll look smarter that way. ;)
Anonymous

@ 1 Mar 06, 2010 at 15:52 by ? : maybe to make the public more involved?

@ 8 Mar 06, 2010 at 16:54 by Fellatio: obvious troll but here’s your food

I could mention a whole lot of crappy bands and artists that are registered with labels as well as some awesome works that are equally registered. Same happens with the ones giving songs for free. I know a group here in my city that has some songs that beat the crap out of the top songs in the charts and yet they compose and play as a past time.

Music that is good for you might not be for other people.

Go lick your bosses… Ears.
Ninja

@ 1 Mar 06, 2010 at 15:52 by ? : maybe to make the public more involved?

@ 8 Mar 06, 2010 at 16:54 by Fellatio: obvious troll but here’s your food

I could mention a whole lot of crappy bands and artists that are registered with labels as well as some awesome works that are equally registered. Same happens with the ones giving songs for free. I know a group here in my city that has some songs that beat the crap out of the top songs in the charts and yet they compose and play as a past time.

Music that is good for you might not be for other people.

Go lick your bosses… Ears.

PS: sry for the double post, if any.. forgot to write the name =(
Fellatio

@@ kottonsnake

“@8 Why do you feel the need to down indie artist. All those major label bands were “indie” at one point, they didn’t just start out huge. So shame goes upon you Fellatio, for downing these artist. I don’t see you on national popular festival or with any albums for that matter.”

Why don’t you save the White Knight act for that girl you’ll never get? I’m sorry you’ve attached a part of your ego to “indie bands” enough to become so hurt when someone points out that the vast majority are rubbish.

“I praise TF for this, I wouldn’t have never known about this had it not been for this article. So…if you would Fellatio why don’t you go troll and another site, this one is for people with at least half a brain.”

I am not trolling and you obviously aren’t very knowlegable about music if this is all “news” to you… BTW, the best thing to do with trolls is to completely ignore them. Which you failed to do. Thanks for making my “trolling” successful. I can’t help it if your failure to acknowledge reality leads to you getting butthurt OK.

“The fact that they give there music only shows that they want to people to hear it.”

The fact that your typing here means you want people to read it – doesn’t make you or them good, knowledgable or worthwhile though does it.

“I am happy to meet a psychic though…I’ve never meet someone who has heard every song ever and knows whether it’s good or not. Please do everyone a favor and just typing…you’ll look smarter that way. ;)”

I never claimed to have heard “every song ever” I just espoused what is common knowledge to most music fans.

WTH do you mean “just typing”? Awesome grammar bro…
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I think it is really cool that they did this, kind of reminds me of the NIN albums being released a while back.

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Fellatio

@@Nunga

“@ 8 Mar 06, 2010 at 16:54 by Fellatio: obvious troll but here’s your food”

sorry but WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME A TROLL AND THEN GOING RIGHT AHEAD AND RESPONDING TO ME? Thats retarded.

“I could mention a whole lot of crappy bands and artists that are registered with labels as well as some awesome works that are equally registered.”

Right, thats what I’m saying. I’m not in one of those elitist subcultures that claims a band is crap if it’s popular like some commeters here have done.

“Same happens with the ones giving songs for free. I know a group here in my city that has some songs that beat the crap out of the top songs in the charts and yet they compose and play as a past time.”

Well they seem to have had a stunning lack of success for some reason… ie. they arent that good?

“Music that is good for you might not be for other people.”

Agreed.

“Go lick your bosses… Ears.”

Huh? If you’re trying to label me a an RIAA puppet take note of the fact that I specifically said go and download some good copyrighted music rather than waste your bandwidth on this mess of free songs.

“PS: sry for the double post, if any.. forgot to write the name =(”

OMG, you have a huge case of Unwarranted Self Importance – people don’t really care who you are and one post under the nick of Anonymous isn’t the end of the world as people just don’t care or know who you are here.

Seriously, you spammed the comments up because you *didn’t put your name there*? Unwarranted Self Imporrtance personified right there…
Recton Kracke

oh get a room already you two…
Music pirate

@Fellatio

Trolling is when your food writes walls of text, not you.
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Fellatio

@@ Muzak pilaf

Oh dear lord you are very naive and uniformed. Let me enlighten you so that you have a faint grasp of one of the most overused words and popular activities on teh internetz:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Troll

So no trolling is not “when your food writes walls of text”

Welcome to the internet, I heard you got it last Thursday.
666

@Fellatio
obvious underage troll is obvious

“OMGWTFBBQ look at me, i iz fighting on teh internetz, i must post this on my facebook/myspace”

Now to more serious things, it’s always good to see new artists and different music. Some may actually be better than many of the mainstream ones, therefore I’m downloading it to make an opinion (unlike others). I will always support non-DRM music and independent artists. If someone bothered looking at many of the once good artists, they would notice they had great releases until they signed up (from their niche label) with a big one like Sony,Warner,Roadrunner etc. -> go ahead and research yourself ;)

Good doesn’t always mean popular… whats the most popular audio player worldwide?…Winamp. There are also more “unpopular” ones like Foobar, MediaMonkey, SongBird etc which are better, more comlex and offer a better quality than Winamp. Who used any of them knows why… and i rest my case.

666
Fellatio

You hate Winamp but think MediaMonkey is better?

LOL… newb.

“If someone bothered looking at many of the once good artists, they would notice they had great releases until they signed up (from their niche label) with a big one like Sony,Warner,Roadrunner etc. -> go ahead and research yourself ;)”

See this is exactly what I was talking about. A person who thinks they are in some “scene” (probably Hipster by the sounds of the post) where if a band is “unpopular” they think they’re music is “good” but when a band is “popular” they’re music is bad.

In other words the “popularity” is far more important than the music ie. they are posers who think that popular music will affect their “image”.

If you ask me it comes down to a sense of insecurity that is covered up by adopting an “elitist” attitude really. Sad.
Whatever

@8 Known NOT EQUAL Good. Known usually means with the MAFIAA less choice and influenced by airtime and marketing.

The 1st main differences between this free compilation and the industry is that with the free music anyone can use their own “crap filter” of what is good and what is bad. It might leave just a few songs but that is no different you get from the MAFIAA except it is someones own taste that decides this.

The 2nd is “free”.

A bit offtopic:
The paradox with the industry is that they want people to believe every one of their (failed) artists MUST make a living in music. There are much more people who think they are artists and sign with a label than there actually special ones. Besides it has been proven by the industry itself that “performing” artists can be replaced so it isn’t much of an art anyhow (how else can bandmembers be replaced with a talent shows). For every failed artists they have, they want to make everyone pay but the money doesn’t go to the “artist” anyhow.
Widget

Lol, thank you troll, you made me laugh :)

I don’t even see how staying “exclusively” to gangsta rap, techno (I’m assuming minimal), hard trance, and hardstyle makes any sense; that’s a pretty spread out, as in each genre is relatively isolated aside from hard trance and hardstyle.

This compilation, though I haven’t and don’t intend to listen to it (as I’m also a technohead [though I hate regular "techno", since that almost always means minimal]), still looks like at least a good bit of it would kick the charts’ ass in a wide amount of areas. Maybe it’s just because you’ve been isolated from it, but rock has become pretty terrible in the last few years, and it makes me laugh when people say my music is too repetitive. :D

Actually, at least you should know, it’s an epic pain to have to sort through all the trash with even signed people on electronic music. I have this problem with torrenting hardstyle and dutch hardcore mainly, as hardstyle is so easy to make and dutch hardcore is so easy to make sound terrible.

Enjoy your raging and listening to “underground” techno.
666

Interesting behavior in trolls, as they usually reply with a large text (containing quotes and “personal” answers which have no link with the actual quote) after 10-15 minutes, which implies a F5 fetish.

Also, as a small update, some of the songs i heard so far are really good and deserve more publicity.
Widget

I kinda wish this site had a downvote system like youtube or similar :)
POTPRINC3

Fellatio your place is on a dick so get moving man!
Windows

sharethep2p.blogspot.com was making a review of MPAA lol
Anonymous

Captain Ad Hominem is in the house.
Anonymous

P2P at its best

Nice ‘n’ legal, like

This is the past, present and future
Khristopher

Great way to find new music! Thanks a lot for this. I also downloaded last years.
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Leaky Penny

Man, the internet is serious business!
Mr. Brooks

FellatioTroll, right you’re not a troll and everybody posting here is Elvis goddamn Presley!

Supposed you’ve listened through all 3.5 Gigs of the torrent before you made up your simple little mind that it all sucked.

Speaking of which – you are a TROLL! Now zip it!
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Anonymous

@12 They see me trollin’.
PhilHarmonic

Ozomatli or Drive-By Truckers or Mother Hips or Margaret Cho (NSFW) would all be worth the downloads – Texas Tornados I’ve heard were good – remember this is a one-cut-per-band sampler of bands looking for new fans, so they’re going to put something good up for you! Tons of people come from around the country to be surprised by new groups that might delight them (as well as old groups they know by heart). Zilker Park (in Austin) is the heart of the musical universe for a few days each year, and careers are born and enjoyment is to be had – listen up!
Anonymous

Yeah, I’m just wondering why fellatio named himself after a blow job, is that what he enjoys doing in his free time?

It sure makes you cool to be a douche on a message board, doesn’t it?
Not Fellatio

@ Fellatio #17/24/etc

Hey guy, next time you point out someone’s grammatical errors, make sure you don’t have any yourself.

They’re = they are
Their = possessive

How do you know that these only have 10 fans? I understand you have your own taste in music, but there’s no need to jump to ridiculous conclusions like that.

What’s wrong with TF promoting bands that just want to get their music out there? Just because you don’t like the music that is posted doesn’t mean other people won’t also.

Your logic is flawed. The end.
SableSlayer

I went to the SXSW last year and it was crazy. So many people! could barley get around Austin.
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klitoratii

awesome. SXSW rocks. glad to hear their doing the downloading thing again this year. atleast someone knows the power of music and bittorrennt combined.
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jon

i thought all music was free lol.
wheather its legal or not legal so y are we all argueing
PlayBoyMan

Thank you SXSW
mrwhoswhat

So despite the fact this is a legal torrent, a bunch of anti-p2p/fakers/my isp are active peers. I don’t understand what’s up with this if it is supposed to be a legit torrent.
Noah

just thought i’d add that i have been releasing my music as torrents for more than a year now – search “noah cohn” in your engine of choice.. :) chill-out, acid, acoustica..
trog

“All the tracks have been made available by the artists themselves which means that they are totally RIAA-safe.”

That statement would be true if artist == copyright holder; hopefully it does
Anonymous

Excellent torrent. Thanks for the heads up TF. Much better than anything the big 4 whining labels could ever release. The artists that impress me the most will be rewarded.
Fellatio is a faggot

Fellatio, Good music is art, art is subjective.

Shitty cookie cutter corporate rock is neither of those, rather its music produced to appeal to the masses. Does popularity make the basis for good music? Not if it’s popular because the corporate labels control the industry’s supply and demand. i.e. airwaves, shopping isles, tv networks.

And if you’re unaware that SXSW releases new indie music every year along with holding a music festival to help promote and support this music, then you’re oblivious to the independent music industry as a whole. And most of the music on this mix is pretty well known within the indie music scene. It’s not looking to appeal to the masses.
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Fellatio

@@ Fellatio is a Ossum

“Fellatio, Good music is art, art is subjective.”

No all music is art.

“Shitty cookie cutter corporate rock is neither of those, rather its music produced to appeal to the masses.”

Once again another idiot trying to associate “popularity” with whether something is art (or in this guys case simply whether he likes it or not because he that kind of vapid)

Michelangelo’s works covering the Sistine Chapel in Rome were designed to appeal to the masses – are you trying to say this is not art.

Your argument is idiotic: you’re saying that if an artist produces music that many people like and they intended for many people to like it then their work is now not art. But (according to you) it would be art if not as many people liked it. In other words you’re another person who’se way more concerned with what image your choice of music portrays for you than the music itself. Another douchebag.

“Does popularity make the basis for good music? Not if it’s popular because the corporate labels control the industry’s supply and demand. i.e. airwaves, shopping isles, tv networks.”

Whether you think something is good or not is irrelevant to whether something is art. Whatever corporate control exists is entirely irrelevant to whether somehting is art or not. Or as to whether some people gain enrichement out of it – if they didn’t like it they wouldn’t consume it now would they. Because something is played in a shopping mall doesn’t mean it’s popular, I don’t even know what that babble is meant to mean. It will get played in a shopping mall if it is popular, you seem very confused and think that it’s the other way around.

If you didn’t have your head so far up your own arse you’d appreciate that people have different tastes to you. If you pulled your right out of that filthy hole in your behind you’d realise that “art” is merely something that someone, along with others usually, has created that is original in some way. Full stop, that’s it.

You seem to have the naive impression that “art” is “art” if it’s stuff you like and something isn’t “art” if you don’t like it or don’t like where it came from.
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rottenb

Great, currently seeding at 7.2 MB/s :) Enjoy all.
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SquareWheel

I hope these all have metadata. I had a hell of a time sorting the other SXSW years.

Some real gems in there though. And some real, well, not gems.
roeles

This thing is popular :)
Seeding with peaks of more than 10MB/sec up :)
Eugenics

“This thing is popular :)
Seeding with peaks of more than 10MB/sec up :)”

Yawn. That’s normal/minimal speeds for anyone using a 100Mbit seedbox which all private trackers worth using have. On a new torrent anyway.

Actually 1Gb servers are becoming more normal these days (that’s 125MB/s) to ensure fast speeds.
DavidE

You people putting down this collection are just idiots. I’ve been listening to these every year since Greg started putting these out, and I’ve found literally dozens of great songs. I always look forward to this collection.
ultraleetj

there are many artists that are the most respected names on latin music history for example. It just happens that the comercialization of music completely ruins these people. Orestes Bilato is one such example. He clearly knows what he’s doing. The problem is that none of you passionate, ignorant critics are studying music. Go study and instrument, learn the rudiments of reading and writing sheet music and come back and post something worth reading. If you say you don’t like the music I beg you to write what characteristics (use of dynamics, tempo, expressiveness, phrasing, rhytmic aproaches, harmonic aproaches ETC) of the music don’t you like. Maybe that’ll help us improve as artists. Its simply called constructive communication. Otherwise we musicians will ignore what you dislike because you have no basis for your arguments. I think this idea is great because many musicians want to get heard out there and the comercial venues eclipse all of their work. The problem with music is that its being produced too quickly and its becoming more and more competitive and you have to somehow stand out from the abalanche of all the upcoming “indie” music. Studying music is obviously not easy and you must put your brain to it. F00lz
Fellatio is a faggot

You’re contradicting yourself, buddy. Let me start off by saying, ‘If you didn’t have your head so far up your own arse you’d appreciate that people have different tastes to you.’ and then let me add, ‘Why would you download this AWFUL COMPILATION. All the bands are ones that noe(no) ones heard of apart from their 10 fans (who also happen to be their friends from high school).’

And yes, you can compare Michelangelo to Nickelback if you’d like. But I think I’ll just let that slide.

You don’t understand enough about the music industry for me to sit here and argue about why people listen to music they hear on the radio and whether there is corporate influence or not.

It sounds to me like you have a pretty ignorant notion of what is considered to be art. Besides, I said art is subjective, which means that I don’t mind what you consider to be good music.
roeles

@Eugenics: We are relatively new at this, and I wasn’t boasting or anything.
This is using budget hardware. If you have tips on proper hardware, especially disks, they are more than welcome.
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Anonymous

All the tracks have been made available by the artists themselves which means that they are totally RIAA-safe.

That is not entirely true I believe.

If an artist have a contract with some label it will depend on that contract and what it says about his or her work.

It could still get uggly.
SomeDude

Anyones peer blocker light up yet?
Anonymous

@Fellatio

No one likes a troll so jog on
but yea torrent seems cool i’l eventually get thru it
Kn ob

“there are many artists that are the most respected names on latin music history for example. It just happens that the comercialization of music completely ruins these people. Orestes Bilato is one such example. He clearly knows what he’s doing. The problem is that none of you passionate, ignorant critics are studying music. Go study and instrument, learn the rudiments of reading and writing sheet music and come back and post something worth reading. If you say you don’t like the music I beg you to write what characteristics (use of dynamics, tempo, expressiveness, phrasing, rhytmic aproaches, harmonic aproaches ETC) of the music don’t you like. Maybe that’ll help us improve as artists. Its simply called constructive communication. Otherwise we musicians will ignore what you dislike because you have no basis for your arguments. I think this idea is great because many musicians want to get heard out there and the comercial venues eclipse all of their work. The problem with music is that its being produced too quickly and its becoming more and more competitive and you have to somehow stand out from the abalanche of all the upcoming “indie” music. Studying music is obviously not easy and you must put your brain to it. F00lz”

Spoken like a true artist whose more interested in fame, fortune and pleasing everybody than their “music”.
Radz

:@ (edit: it was released a few hours ago).

use should use proper grammar :P
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Fellatio

@@ Fellatio is a Ossum: “And yes, you can compare Michelangelo to Nickelback if you’d like. But I think I’ll just let that slide. ”

Is your argument that weak that you have to make up stuff that I said even though the comment you’re replying to is just above for all to read?

I never compared Michelangelo to anything, full stop. So if your unable to read a sentence without imagining all these extraenous things it contains because you disagree with someone your frankly hardly worth arguing with. The fact that you’re going to “let it slide” is hilarious considering you just made up that comparison – thanks, I’m so glad your not going to take me up on that considering I never said it, you did LOL.

“You don’t understand enough about the music industry for me to sit here and argue about why people listen to music they hear on the radio and whether there is corporate influence or not.”

Ditto you – some know nothing posetr whose claim to knowledge is “I said I do” wghen your not making up what people said and then replying to that.

“It sounds to me like you have a pretty ignorant notion of what is considered to be art. Besides, I said art is subjective, which means that I don’t mind what you consider to be good music.”

You said art is subjective and yet your also saying “X is not art” in your original post. Your also saying that “art is subjective” and yet then in the same sentence saying that art is a considered thing – are you on drugs while your writing this? Because you’re coming across as retarded.

Case closed, you pwned yourself as your flailing about with your half-assed ideas that basically come down to teh notion: “If I like it it’s art, if I don’t like it it’s not art” and “If it’s corporate then it’s crap” despite the fact that some of these artists may well go on to be represented by corporate interests. Upon which you will (according to you) think their music is now crap – which again reimforces my notion that you’re a person much more worried about their image than music. In other words your a stupid poser: most likely a hipster.

Recognise anything? http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Hipster
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kottonface

@ Gives oneself Fellatio

I’m sorry you were clever enough to figure out that the word “stop” goes in there. Well how can you say it’s not good if you haven’t even heard any of it…bro?
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@Fellatio

m a cyber troll and I’m okay,
I troll all night and I flame all day.

He’s a cyber troll and he’s okay,
He trolls all night and he flames all day.

I set my sites, on a friendly folk,
I know they all hate me
On forums I go trolling
And catch some pawns for tea

He sets his sites, on friendly folk
He knows they all hate he.
On forums he goes trolling
And catches pawns for tea

He’s a cyber troll, and he’s okay,
He trolls all night and he flames all day.

I wreck their threads, give them the hump
I laugh as sites turn sour.
I put on my disguises,
And screw around for hours.

He wrecks their threads, gives them the hump
He laughs as sites turn sour
He puts on his disguises
And screws around for hours

He’s a cyber troll, and he’s okay,
He trolls all night and he flames all day.

I break down threads, I rant and rave,
Got twelve identities
And no one knows my gender
Or knows just who I be

He breaks down threads he rants and raves
Got twelve identities
And no one knows his gender
Or knows just who he be

He’s a cyber troll, and he’s OKAAAAAAAAAAYYY.
He trolls all night and he flames all day
Torrentino

LOL at this thread!

Look, there’s some great music on major labels, some great music on indie labels, and some great music on no label… And lots of crap on all three.

SXSW’s samplers are great, and I hope they come on coming. Out of 1000 songs, I’ll find 50 or so excellent ones, another 100 very good ones, and another 100 or so “interesting” ones.

Even if I go ahead and delete 75% of all the torrents, $0 for 250 good songs is a pretty good deal. Not all of the artists are ‘unknown’ some are fairly well-known… Some are names I always was curious to hear, but wasn’t going to shell money out for.

SXSW is doing the right thing, and others should be encouraged to share music in this manner. I’m grateful for it. If you don’t like it, don’t download it. Simple.
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dave

very fresh indie music, and a great variety too, a very nice move of them to make a royalties-free showcase! I hope other will follow suit!
dave

…and I only listened to the 2009 songs lol
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halocursed

Just thought I’d mention that in the 2008 pack my favourite song was ‘longwave – no direction’ – check it out on youtube, it’s a good tune I’ve since bought the album, which is pretty decent (called secrets are sinister). most importantly, I downloaded free music, heard a band who I have never heard of before, and paid for their album. heres hoping the music business gets with the times(http://gameranx.com)

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