A Minor Technicality

In today’s context, you have two choices when you wish to download music online. One way is to do it by downloading your music files from legal music sites. The other is to download music from online file sharing programs.

We will take a look at what benefits you can gain from using a legal music download site compared to using a file sharing program to download music online and the advantages and disadvantages of each method.

Legal Music Download Sites

Such sites offer you the benefit to download music online in piece meal. In other words, you only need to pay for what you download. Say you only like a song in the entire album, by all means just download that track and pay for it instead of paying for the whole album.

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Nowadays, with so much competition going on, the quality of service at such music download sites is high. The music quality is top class and prices are diving fast. In fact, recently, some have come up with a subscription-based membership model. For a fee, you can either obtain a monthly, yearly or lifetime membership to download music online from these sites. The variety and genre of music offered is surprisingly huge as well. It is quite amazing to find millions of music MP3s available for download. eMusic.com has over 3.5 million track to choose from!
File Sharing Program Sites

Such sites are better known as free P2P or Peer to Peer programs. It is controversial to download music online from P2P sites. While it is illegal to download commercial music MP3s in this way, there are also many files do not carry any copyrights and therefore is legal for sharing - although it is very difficult to tell what is legal and what is not. The music you download from these sites is free.

But these sites are not without problems. Since they are free, there are many people who download music from them. The download speeds can be extremely slow, and there is no guarantee that you will receive the complete downloaded file, or that a track that seems to be available is actually downloadable. At the same time, your computer may not be protected at all from attacks of malware such as adware, spyware and viruses that can damage your computer infrastructure.

So before you decide how and where you want to download your music files, weigh the options carefully.

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One of the cornerstone punk bands of the ’90s, Rancid’s unabashedly classicist sound drew heavily from the Clash’s early records, echoing their left-leaning politics and fascination with ska, while adding a dash of essential hardcore crunch.

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Location: Los Angeles, California United States
Genres: Punk

Rancid is a punk band with an obvious reggae influence. The band was formed by Armstrong, Freeman, and former drummer Brett Reed, who left the band in 2006 and was replaced by Branden Steineckert. Frederiksen joined Rancid in 1993 when the band was searching for a second guitar player.

As of 2007, Rancid has been working on a studio album expected to be released in June 2008 on Hellcat Records.

Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman had been playing together in the seminal ska punk band Operation Ivy from 1987-1989. Rancid’s first recorded release was a 1992 EP for Operation Ivy’s old label Lookout! Records. Rancid would release their self titled debut album for Epitaph in 1993.

While Rancid was writing for a follow-up album, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, a friend of the band, joined them to co-write the song “Radio”. Frederiksen played with the band on 1994’s Let’s Go. The album failed to meet the success of Rancid’s previous two albums and peaked at number 68 on the billboard charts.

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Also that year, all four members of the band played on BYO Split Series, Vol. 3, a split album with NOFX in which Rancid covered NOFX songs and NOFX covered Rancid songs.

After a break from touring in 2001, Rancid returned to the studio with Gurewitz in 2002 to record their sixth album, Indestructible, which was released on August 19, 2003 on Hellcat Records. It features the hit song “Fall Back Down”, and was Rancid’s highest charting album ever, peaking at number 15.

I Drink Alone

If rock ‘n’ roll were a dinner menu, singer/guitarist George Thorogood would be the meat and potatoes. Though more than 25 years have passed since he formed George Thorogood and the Destroyers, which has sold more than 15 million albums since its inception in 1973, Thorogood has maintained his full-force, straightforward blues/rock style. He has released several hit songs over his lengthy career, including rock classics “I Drink Alone,” “Who Do You Love,” and his signature song, “Bad to the Bone.”

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