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Free Music - Amazon Summer Samplers

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In the previous post, I linked the Amazon..com $5 albums & free music banner.



To give you a head start on the free music, I wanted to give you some suggestions for dowloading.

Enjoy!

23 This Year: The Sub Pop Amazon Sampler
1. Helplessness Blues by the Fleet Foxes.  Great track from one 2011's best albums
2. Lost in My Mind by the Head and the Heart.  If you didn't get this album for $5 at minimum get this song for free, so you can remind yourself in August, how dumb you are for not getting this album for so cheap.

Kill Rock Stars 20 Year Anniversary Sampler
3. Eleven by Thao & Mirah.  I don't know much about this duo, but I L-O-V-E this song!
4. 16 Military Wives by the Decemberists
5. Between the Bars by Elliott Smith.  One of the evocative tracks from Good Will Hunting

Merge Records 2011 Sampler
6. Civilian by Wye Oak.  I am strongly considering this $5 album.  Meanwhile, I have this as one of my 2011 best of songs
7. Please Ask for Help - Telekinesis.  I have no idea about this song, but 'Car Crash' is strong enough to push for another look into the Seattle band
8. Damn These Vampires - the Mountain Goats.  My brother-in-law "Brosef" digs them, maybe I should?

From the "free" vaults:

9. Hannah by Freelance Whales
10. Ambivalence Avenue - Bibio don't let the beginning fool you, it's not an instrumental.  Be sure to track down some more Bibio if you like this one. 

Leave me some comments, let me know what you thought.  You never know what you might find & like.  I'm still overjoyed with a mix I made from free tracks back in 2009, when I started getting free from Amazon

1. Iron & Wine - Belated Promise Ring
2. Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You
3. Michael Franti & Spearhead - Hey World (Don't Give Up Version)
4. John Vanderslice - White Dove
5. Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
6. Lisa Hannigan - Lille
7. Owl City - Fireflies
8 .Jeff Beck featuring Imogen Heap - Blanket
9. The Shins - We Will Become Silhouettes
10 . Erin McCarley - Pitter Pat
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