Legally Free Music

Ok, so we all know where to find free music, but here I would like to post the ones that are actually legal. :-) I've divided it into two categories, the first are sites where you get to pick from a large database of songs, some with limits some without. The second are sites that offer a download or 2 a week and they pick the songs.

"You Get To Pick" Sites:

Amazon.com: Free to sign up. They give away free song and movie credits all the time. Most importantly they have a massive database of free music. No limits on downloads and you get to pick what you want. I will be doing some posts highlighting some of the best music in the near future. :-)

Guvera.com: Free to sign up. It is a streaming website with the option to buy songs as well. To see if you have any free credits go to My Channels. You should get a few right away as a new user. In my experience the free credits come few and far between, so save this link and check it about once a month. But you do get to pick your music. I just got some Chris Tomlin music.  :-)

NoiseTrade.com: Free to sign up. This one seems to be one for up and coming artists as well as better known ones. It gives you the option to donate to the artist but the music is free. Check it out! There are no limits to downloads and you get to pick the music.

Freegal: This is a library program and offers a few free downloads a week through Sony music. Check your library to see if yours has it. If anyone knows of a database of every library that has this please let me know! I will list them below:

Arkansas, Faulkner County

"They Get To Pick" Sites:

iTunes: To get an iTunes account you need to buy something through them, but you can get around that by picking up one of the free song cards at Starbucks or downloading the song of the week from KLove (below). Go to iTunes Store and click on Free on iTunes. There is never very much in there, so I list it under "they pick", but it is worth a look!

iTickets.com: Usually 2 free Christian songs a week. They pick, but so far they've been good! :-)

WorshipTogether.com: This site has free songs and sheet music. Free to sign up and they seem to change their selection frequently.

KLove.com: Usually 1 free song every two weeks. They pick and you need an iTunes account to download.

Air1.com: Same as KLove, a radio website that features a free song of their choice every two weeks or so.

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I know I haven't even scratched the surface so please let me know of your favorite site for legally downloading free music and I will add it to the database. Thanks! Until then here is a blog that I get most of my links from, check her out and get your free music! thefrugalgirls.com

P.S. If you want to get free Amazon Gift Cards and get even more free music with them sign up for Crowdtap! It is a community that rewards you just for discussing and communicating with others about brands. We all do it anyway, so why not get paid for it?

Troll Song written by J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm "reading" through The Lord of the Rings on audiobook and I'm constantly amazed at the amount of verse and poetry Tolkien wrote for the trilogy. Here is one of my current favorites from the Fellowship of the Ring. It is a song written and performed by Sam Gamgee at the place of the stone trolls after Frodo was stabbed by the ringwraiths. I thought it was funny and Rob Inglis sings it wonderfully in the audiobook.

Troll Song

Troll sat alone on his seat of stone,
And munched and mumbled a bare old bone;
For many a year he had gnawed it near,
For meat was hard to come by.
Done by! Gum by!
In a cave in the hills he dwelt alone,
And meat was hard to come by.

Up came Tom with his big boots on.
Said he to Troll: 'Pray, what is yon?
For it looks like the shin o' my nuncle Tim,
As should be a-lyin' in graveyard.
Caveyard! Paveyard!
This many a year has Tim been gone,
And I thought he were lying' in graveyard.'

'My lad,' said Troll, 'this bone I stole.
But what be bones that lie in a hole?
Thy nuncle was dead as a lump o' lead,
Afore I found his shinbone.
Tinbone! Thinbone!
He can spare a share for a poor old troll,
For he don't need his shinbone.'

Said Tom: 'I don't see why the likes o' thee
Without axin' leave should go makin' free
With the shank or the shin o' my father's kin;
So hand the old bone over!
Rover! Trover!
Though dead he be, it belongs to he;
So hand the old bone over!'

'For a couple o' pins,' says Troll, and grins,
'I'll eat thee too, and gnaw thy shins.
A bit o' fresh meat will go down sweet!
I'll try my teeth on thee now.
Hee now! See now!
I'm tired o' gnawing old bones and skins;
I've a mind to dine on thee now.'

But just as he thought his dinner was caught,
He found his hands had hold of naught.
Before he could mind, Tom slipped behind
And gave him the boot to larn him.
Warn him! Darn him!
A bump o' the boot on the seat, Tom thought,
Would be the way to larn him.

But harder than stone is the flesh and bone
Of a troll that sits in the hills alone.
As well set your boot to the mountain's root,
For the seat of a troll don't feel it.
Peel it! Heal it!
Old Troll laughed, when he heard Tom groan,
And he knew his toes could feel it.

Tom's leg is game, since home he came,
And his bootless foot is lasting lame;
But Troll don't care, and he's still there
With the bone he boned from it's owner.
Doner! Boner!
Troll's old seat is still the same,
And the bone he boned from it's owner!

Edit: Lookie what I just found! The Troll Song sung by none other than Tolkien himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9WmxwgW2J0