Mattsapundit » Music http://www.mattsapundit.com Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:06:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Oh, here it goes, here it goes, here it goes again http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/09/12/oh-here-it-goes-here-it-goes-here-it-goes-again/ http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/09/12/oh-here-it-goes-here-it-goes-here-it-goes-again/#comments Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:44:06 +0000 Matt Bramanti http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/09/12/oh-here-it-goes-here-it-goes-here-it-goes-again/ Check out this video. Four dudes, eight treadmills and “Here It Goes Again” by OK Go.

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]]> http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/09/12/oh-here-it-goes-here-it-goes-here-it-goes-again/feed/ 1 More free tunes http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/09/11/more-free-tunes/ http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/09/11/more-free-tunes/#comments Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:10:57 +0000 Matt Bramanti http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/09/11/more-free-tunes/ Don’t forget: today is Monday, which means there’s another free 25-song sampler on iTunes.

]]> http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/09/11/more-free-tunes/feed/ 0 Lots and lots of music http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/08/17/lots-and-lots-of-music/ http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/08/17/lots-and-lots-of-music/#comments Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:31:49 +0000 Matt Bramanti http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/08/17/lots-and-lots-of-music/ Today, I decided to add to my music collection. Drastically. I looked around and found quite a few sites that offer free, legal downloads of unrestricted music, mostly from indie labels. Some of the sites are traditional labels, some are net labels, some are blogs and some are fansites.

I got a ton of leads from E.C. Brown’s link archive. It’s about as comprehensive as you can get. Here are some of the sites I found with the largest number of free MP3s:

Here’s the cool part. I discovered a feature in Download Accelerator Plus that lets you mass-queue downloads. The download manager is integrated with Firefox, so when you come across a page with a bunch of links (a discography, for example), you right-click anywhere on the page and select “Download all with DAP.”

This brings up a dialog box listing every link in that HTML document. The list is sortable by type. So you sort, pick all the MP3s, and add them to the download queue. DAP uses a proximity test to pick the fastest server, and away it goes. When I started this post, I had 1,617 files in the queue. The vast majority are single songs, though there are quite a few albums and compilations in there.

Now the queue stands at 1,811. I figure there are probably about 2,000-2,100 songs in there. Add that to the 270 I downloaded today and the 3,100 already in my iTunes library, and that’s a pretty good-sized catalog.

]]> http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/08/17/lots-and-lots-of-music/feed/ 5 Free music on iTunes http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/08/10/free-music-on-itunes/ http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/08/10/free-music-on-itunes/#comments Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:01:44 +0000 Matt Bramanti http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/08/10/free-music-on-itunes/ I ran across this on Facebook today — a group with the name “Apple Students.” Here’s the message I got:

Congratulations! To redeem, please follow these instructions:

DOWNLOAD CODE: NL3KJLE4YFH3
Code Expiration: September 7th, 2006

1. Copy the Download Code
2. Open your iTunes* Music Player
3. Click ‘Music Store’ in the iTunes menu bar
4. Click ‘Redeem’ in the ‘Account’ box on the left navigation bar
5. Paste the Download Code and click ‘Submit’

Your download will start immediately. Enjoy and spread the word!

Visit the Apple Students group next week to get the latest Sampler.

25 songs, gratis. Every Monday through 9/30, they’ll put up another playlist with another 25 songs, free o’ charge.

Sweet.

]]> http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/08/10/free-music-on-itunes/feed/ 4 Twelve stories high, made of radiation http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/06/28/twelve-stories-high-made-of-radiation/ http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/06/28/twelve-stories-high-made-of-radiation/#comments Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:18:13 +0000 Matt Bramanti http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/06/28/twelve-stories-high-made-of-radiation/ This is the funniest thing I have seen this week:

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]]> http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/06/06/im-gonna-set-it-straight-this-watergate/feed/ 1 Ooh baby baby… http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/06/01/ooh-baby-baby/ http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/06/01/ooh-baby-baby/#comments Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:43:17 +0000 Matt Bramanti http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/06/01/ooh-baby-baby/ Yeah, it’s another commercial with buttoned-down white dudes rocking out. Deal with it:

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]]> http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/06/01/ooh-baby-baby/feed/ 0 You know the peeps want the stash http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/05/31/you-know-the-peeps-want-the-stash/ http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/05/31/you-know-the-peeps-want-the-stash/#comments Wed, 31 May 2006 19:23:02 +0000 Matt Bramanti http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/05/31/you-know-the-peeps-want-the-stash/ I had this song stuck in my head yesterday. As MeMo pointed out, it’s Lumbajac:

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]]> http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/05/31/you-know-the-peeps-want-the-stash/feed/ 0 This is what it sounds like when Matt cries http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/05/02/this-is-what-it-sounds-like-when-matt-cries/ http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/05/02/this-is-what-it-sounds-like-when-matt-cries/#comments Tue, 02 May 2006 16:21:47 +0000 Matt Bramanti http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/05/02/this-is-what-it-sounds-like-when-matt-cries/ “Why do we scream at each other?”

I know why. It’s because for years, I couldn’t find a video on MTV to save my life. Now I can’t turn on the TV without Prince’s creepy nakedness crawling towards me.

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Here are the lyrics.

]]> http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/05/02/this-is-what-it-sounds-like-when-matt-cries/feed/ 0 Oh baby, dance with me http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/01/08/oh-baby-dance-with-me/ http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/01/08/oh-baby-dance-with-me/#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:58:00 +0000 Matt Bramanti http://mattsapundit.com/?p=704 I’ve got “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” stuck in my head. Seriously stuck. It’s been in there for two days now. If it doesn’t go away, I’ll have to dig it out with a fork.

Oh everybody have fun tonight
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody wang chung tonight
Everybody have fun tonight
Everybody wang chung tonight
Everybody have fun

Damn, it’s catchy.

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