They also found their music on Russian music sites with a price tag attached.
UNDERGROUND MUSIC SITES FOR FREE
Other artists trying to build an audience by giving away stuff for free include Ophed on the Etched Trauma netlabel. They’re currently selling Dan Bull’s album ‘Safe’ in low quality 128Kbps, even though Dan gives it away to any fan. Nearly as many appear if we search for the term ‘ BOOTLEG‘.īut when it comes to selling music, even at rock-bottom prices, some of these sites will sell anyone’s, even when its normally free. Yet here are plenty of tracks, apparently advertising the face that they were being sold before they came out officially. The word ‘ADVANCE’, which could be used to denote an early leaked copy of an album, would only be used in an unauthorized track filename. A search for this term on our trusty music site shows dozens of ‘PROPER’ releases.
They put this word in the description of the track to show the fact. When a warez group release some music onto a topsite but fail to meet some Scene criteria by breaking rules, other groups can come along with a better version – a so-called ‘PROPER’. So what about other terms associated with unofficial/pirate releases? The group 1KING shown in the random release above are well-known online for releasing unofficial rips of radio shows, yet bizarrely a few of their releases are available on sites such as LegalSounds.
UNDERGROUND MUSIC SITES TORRENT
From searches done on some of these Russian music stores it’s absolutely clear that they’re ripping music from both torrent and Scene topsites. Of course, apart from the name of the artist and the album, none of these descriptors appear in music released on official sites – unless they’re Russian, that is.
The first part is the name of the artist, the second the title of the album, track or performance, the third denotes the source (in this case satellite – SAT), then the date, and the last section gives the name of the piracy group who released it online. When music is released unofficially online, audio filenames are formatted in a certain way. Something tells us it’s not coming from the labels, and here’s why. These sites counter by maintaining that they operate legally under Russian law as they pay the necessary fees to a local collecting society.įor the purposes of this post we won’t concern ourselves too much with the legal issues, but rather where these sites are getting their music from.
UNDERGROUND MUSIC SITES DOWNLOAD
These music download sites are perhaps understandably a thorn in the side of the big record labels – when they offer a track for 9 cents they clearly aren’t playing by the same rules as iTunes for example. As the screenshot below of the current US #1 album from John Mayer shows, each track is being offered on the Russian site called ‘ LegalSounds‘ for a little above give-away prices. Although they’ve been around for a decade or more, Russian music download sites still come as a surprise to those encountering them for the first time.Īpart from having some of the most extensive music libraries on the planet, they are ridiculously cheap.
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