Update
I don’t have time to maintain another site, so instead of writing a “Free Films Galore” blog, I’ll just keep an updated list of “highly notable” (in my opinion, of course) films available for free download. Over here. As always, recommendations are welcome.
Free Album Downloads is kinda like this site but, so far, without the blog structure or album write-ups (just links). It’s mostly too pop-focused for my tastes, but still; another great resource! And the site has a better initials than mine (FAD over FAG).
Speaking of which, FAD links to Neutral Milk Hotel, who don’t have any full studio albums up for download, but they sure have a hell of a lot of tracks up, including full live sets, unreleased demos, etc.
Also not a full, free album, but worth checking out: Italian noise composer Maurizio Bianchi has uploaded CD 1 of his two-CD Blut et Nebel to Wikimedia. The album remixes his “first ten LPs of the early 1980s, [an] excellent demonstration of Bianchi’s skills at dadaistic collage, free-form improvisation and abstract soundsculpting, as accrued over twenty years of electronic manipulation. Noise is employed like an electric guitar to produce solos of manic intensity.”
