Alt-rock legend Juliana Hatfield has thrown literally dozens of tracks onto her Downloads page, and they’re free, sort of… they’re on the “honor system“:

You can decide that ownership of this song is your right and freely distribute the files to your friends and to the people who also think it’s their right, without payment.

Or, you can support the artist who wrote and recorded this song and click the PayPal button at the top of the page and send Juliana a contribution.

I particularly like Better Than Nothing and Now That I Have Found You.

For those of you who’d like to subscribe to the Sounding Board in iTunes (so that the tracks we link to show up in your iTunes, like any other podcast), but haven’t yet figured out the iTunes interface for adding a URL, well, you’re in luck. On the left-hand side of the page you’ll now see a “Subscribe with iTunes” shortcut that’ll do the hard part for you.

Amazon offers a staggering list of free mp3s. Amazon! Free! And some big-name artists!

Go on their “Music” store, then “Free Downloads” right below it. The selection varies day-to-day.