creative commons
Jonathan Coulton
Folk rock singer and songwriter, Jonathan Coulton, is selling his music (by album and by individual song) in lossless FLAC format, 192kbps MP3 format, as well as the MP3+G Karaoke format. All of the songs he has written are released under a Creative Commons BY-NC license.
Jamendo
Jamendo is a DRM-free, community-driven site where artists can share music under Creative Commons licenses. As of April, 2008, there are over 8200 albums available from over 4800 artists.
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-V
Trent Reznor and his band Nine Inch Nail have released a 36 track
instrumental collection entitled Ghosts I-V under the Creative
Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. The first
9 tracks are available at no-cost as "high-quality, DRM-free MP3s,
including the complete PDF." They note that MP3s were encoded using
the free software program, LAME, at 320kbps.
