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Genre: Editorial

Welcome to Free Albums Galore, a full-album “mp3 blog” for listeners of eclectic music. What distingiushes Free Albums Galore from other mp3 blogs?

1. I post only complete albums, not individual or scattered tracks.
2. I post only albums with permanent off-site hosting, unlike other album blogs like Hepcatwilly.
3. I post only legally free albums, instead of blindly hoping copyright owners won’t mind me distributing their music.
4. I post at least one complete album per day.

I won’t link to files that require site registration before downloading, or to files with restrictive DRM. I also won’t link to albums with seperate tracks hosted as a single, inseperable MP3, even for genres like Deep House (at Fleep). From the classical music world, I consider any work at least 20 minutes in length to be a “complete album”, but there will be exceptions (ala Mozart’s wonderful 40th Symphony). This blog was originally hosted at blogspot until I tired of its meager features and abandoned it for a WordPress-enabled blog host. The ads on this blog support my gracious blog host, not me.

If you can recommend any online, free, legal, complete albums (or lengthy classical works), feel free to e-mail me at freealbumsgalore@yahoo.com.

To easily download all album tracks on a page or post in a few simple clicks, I suggest using Firefox (which is better than other web browsers for a multitude of reasons) and the DownThemAll extension.

EDIT: On January 1st, 2006, I handed over this blog to Marvin.

POSTED BY Marvin ON 07.21.05 @ 12:40 am |

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  1. Hey Luke, a question - is it fair to draw traffic away from the sites hosting the files? It seems your intentions are to drive traffic to the sites offering the sounds, but then you link directly to the sound files, serving as a middle man while they still get the bandwidth usage. I wrestle with this dilema in my playlists at Webjay and Oddio. Some sites have written asking to be linked to, but to allow them to share the actual aound files from their own site. Your thoughts?

    Comment by Oddio Katya — September 1, 2005 @ 1:12 pm

  2. I almost always link to the site or download page in my post if I link directly to the files below the Download header. I link directly to files when they are not actually linked to from any page, or when readers would have to wade through long, messy, or other-language pages to find the correct download links. Because I usually link to the host site somewhere in my post, so I do not believe it is a problem.

    Comment by Luke — September 1, 2005 @ 4:58 pm

  3. Are you hip to this already? You oughta know. Hey, I love your site — keep it up.

    Comment by david — November 14, 2005 @ 7:46 am

  4. Thanks, didn’t know about that one!

    Comment by Luke — November 14, 2005 @ 10:39 pm

  5. Please have a look around my site, particularly the SHAKES album. I’m enjoying your links :j

    Comment by ShowcaseJase — June 10, 2006 @ 12:17 pm

  6. I LOVE this blog!

    Comment by HissingDragon — March 4, 2007 @ 9:21 pm

  7. Hello,

    Thank you for the wonderful site. Very useful and courageous! I look forward to sharing this with others. Have a good day and best.

    Alan-

    Comment by Alan Lechusza — March 5, 2007 @ 6:40 am

  8. Hi:
    This is our Network Music Platform( http://iosv.blogbus.com ),I hope you could like it and support it,thank you.

    Comment by ppp32 — March 18, 2007 @ 10:44 am

  9. Man, I love your blog! It’s very refreshing and I am very grateful for turning me onto the Hot Bitch Arsenal, Jets Overhead, and The Bastard Fairies to name a few. Thank you very much for all of your hard work. Peace and grease.

    Comment by Big Poppa — April 11, 2007 @ 3:00 am

  10. Very glad to play Hadyn 88th. Have DVD in which Dohnanyi (grandson of the composer) rehearses London Philarmonia in this piece but without a full performance. Congratulate Columbia Orchestra on a delightful performance.

    Comment by c.corben — May 13, 2007 @ 10:53 am

  11. Great site thanks for sharing these albums.

    Comment by Internet Marketing Consultant — July 11, 2007 @ 2:21 am

  12. Hi!
    thanks for your support.. your blog is amazing!
    Lágrima new split album will be release on August… ;)

    Comment by Xavi — July 16, 2007 @ 9:35 am

  13. Thanks for the support! :)

    Peace,

    Pedro.

    Comment by test tube — July 27, 2007 @ 11:47 am

  14. I’m very much in love with this blog. Since I’ve started coming to it my itunes library has nearly doubled. Thanks especially for turning me on to Dead Heart Bloom, The Bastard Fairies and John Vanderslice.

    Comment by Whitney — October 7, 2007 @ 2:16 pm

  15. great work luke, some really good music out there, bombay laughinh club amongst others…thnakeeeeeee

    Comment by vijay — October 10, 2007 @ 3:23 pm

  16. First, I would like to thank you for your great blog. Indeed, I find it really diversified and there is a lot of interesting things, many of them unknown to me, so I’m really happy to discover new things and your blog expand my musical domain. So, thank you very much for all and I hope to see you soon on our website (http://planetesauvagesound.free.fr)
    Thanks.
    Carole

    Comment by Carole — November 22, 2007 @ 1:50 am

  17. Hello, good blog

    here free Rock and Roll CD:

    http:/www.etiqueta-rock.com.ar/

    is rock of sudameric ghetto

    Bye!!!

    Comment by El Flacko — November 22, 2007 @ 12:54 pm

  18. Hey there,

    Thanks for finding and posting my Dark River Projects Vols 1&2. Volume 3 is around the corner.

    Enjoy,

    - doug

    Comment by Doug Carter — November 24, 2007 @ 4:27 am

  19. Excellent site/resource!
    Got a free album for your list, it will be available to the end of the year. Feel free to dig it or ditch it. The style is electronica/acoustic downtempo kind of thing.
    www.dynamoe.com

    Enjoy
    /Giovanni

    Comment by Giovanni — December 3, 2007 @ 2:18 pm

  20. hey, thought you might want to know Tortured Sun is letting people download thier entire EP at torturedsun.com

    Comment by metalhead — January 15, 2008 @ 5:21 pm

  21. heres a free Ratatat remix album http://www.ratatatmusic.com/news.html

    Comment by Anonymous — March 29, 2008 @ 7:46 pm

  22. Last month I released Politics Apocalypse, a full length album using the creative commons licence attribution 3.0. This allows you to use the music however you please (including in commercial projects) so long as you give credit. Since last month we have had over 3000 album downloads.

    We accept donations, and we have a name-your-own-price CD; which is a unique concept where you can name your own price (starting at cost price) for a CD. We have had some orders and heaps of positive feedback.

    The album is political post-industrial rock with an interesting mix of classical instruments, guitars, electronic beats, and a dash of aussie hip-hop.

    You can download the whole 11 track album for free at our website.
    http://www.politicsapocalypse.com

    Comment by Cliffe — May 23, 2008 @ 7:28 am

  23. Hello. Fantastique Blog.
    Cheers, From
    WE ARE MONSTERS
    Norway
    FREE: WE ARE MONSTERS - THE AUTUMN WORKS [Electronica]
    http://www.archive.org/details/WeAreMonsters-AutumnWorks

    Comment by We Are Monsters — May 23, 2008 @ 9:36 am

  24. very very useful and content rich site.
    thanks for that!

    Comment by Anonymous — July 13, 2008 @ 9:33 pm

  25. Thank you for this blog. Discovered lots of good music!

    Comment by sebu — July 16, 2008 @ 11:12 am

  26. Damn fine blog.

    Comment by Kris — July 20, 2008 @ 9:50 am

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