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There are so many sites that allow people to upload their music for others to download free. I think my favourite is really archive.org though I like the way Jamendo runs. If I wasn't ill it would be so much fun to take part and I would've joined in I guess. If I'd've been young I guess I would've loved to. The Archive.org is amazing in one way cause it's going to be a long term collection of peoples work .. which is why The Grateful Dead have put some of their work up I guess. It'll be there in the archives for people to find which might give them more play than if they hadn't bothered both now and in the future. I'd gone over to Youtube and looked up some of the bands from my youth and wondered just how many plays they would have got if you took out their original fans and anyone from that age group and say ten/fifteen years younger. A lot less and, for quite a few of them, many, many less.

I'm still going to look round the net but will be listening to a lot of the CC music I've already found to decide what I'll put on cds for people most of the time. Listen to that music nearly all the time now as I'm working my way through so much of it. I need to get back to playing the dreamy music I've found for myself too I guess and make a meditation cd up. I do play some of it when I meditate but that's fallen behind a bit again so will sort that out too.

The net's full of interesting things to find out and learn to do though. It's just amazing.

There are heaps of CC music sites out there and more where bands join and give away a pre tour ep or something if they're trying to promote themselves. It's usually pre-tour or pre 1st album.

Guess I'll click into other things too. Just to learn from and enjoy. I know, for a lot of people my age, it's crafts and, of course, they can broaden hobbies they already had just through the huge amount of info up on the web. Well, that applies to everybody.

Anyway .. we'll see.