Freebies and free stuff

If the free Beastie Boys album wasn’t enough of a musical freebie for you, how about a code for a free Amazon song download? Just use code CMAAWARD and you’ll be able to download one of over 3,000 CMA nominated country songs.

You’ll probably be able to download any song you want, not just a country tune, but I’m not 100% sure. It’s kind of like my belief that El Nino is the cause of all the world’s problems. I haven’t been able to “prove it” with “facts,” per say, but I’m darn confident about my theory!

EDIT: It looks like the credit will only be used if you get one of the 3000 songs I linked to above.

[via Janet and Wanda - thanks!]

You know those days where you can’t keep your eyes open no matter how many IV drips of coffee you have going? Yeah, that’s my day so far. The odds of me taking an unscheduled nap at my desk within the next hour is near 43,000% I hope my laptop is not adversely affected by drool.

I’ll try waking myself up by blasting this free Beastie Boys DoubleCheck Your Head mashup album, but I doubt it’ll help. I can sleep through anything and plus the songs are … fairly … melodic … zzzzzz

[via The Freebie Blogger - thanks!]

It’s 2:30 and I’ve found a whopping two freebies, both of which I actually found late last night. In other words, it’s a slow freebie day. So when I found this free Orange Mountain Philip Glass album, I was thrilled. Sure, I already posted some free Amazon music this week, but it’s Glass! He rocks! And there’s 21 tracks! I can’t stop using exclamation marks!

At least now I’ll have something to help get the song I mentioned on Facebook out of my head while I futilely hunt for freebies.

Free music from Amazon is starting to become a routine event and I couldn’t be happier. The three albums below have 28 free songs in all and there’s a little something for everybody.

• The O’Neill Brothers Wedding Music
• Brushfire Records Fall 2009 Sampler
• Ryko: Flash Of Light Sampler

The funny thing is that I download all this free music and then promptly forget about it. Months later, iTunes will shuffle past one of the songs and it’s like a brand new discovery. “Hey, I’ve never heard this before! Cool, new music!”

What can I say, I get excited over small things. If I find a quarter on the ground, it’s easily the highlight of my week.

Here’s yet another free bit of music from Amazon, this time being The Best Of The Most Relaxing Classical Music In The Universe. That’s a pretty bold statement, if you ask me. The best in the entire Universe?! How do you know there isn’t another intelligent species out there with music that’s so relaxing it instantly puts you to sleep? You can’t! Well, either that, or Amazon knows something I don’t.

The album has 15 songs and includes some popular ones, such as Claire De Lune, Fur Elise, and Canon In D. Plus, Amazon still has over 1,400 free songs, which is 200 more than last month. Between that and my favorite streaming radio station, I haven’t heard the same song in months!

[via Common Sense With Money - thanks!]

EDIT: The code is LONGHORN

When I found this free Luke Bryan download for his new album ‘Doin’ My Thing’, I wondered at first who Luke Bryan was. Then, after deciding that I didn’t really care because it was free music, I figured I should probably thank Longhorn Steakhouse too for sponsoring the free download. Needless to say, I got hungry on my way over and stopped in at Chili’s. Oops?

If it wasn’t bad enough that I just admitted to listening to Miley Cyrus after my improbable leave of absence, well, now I really want to download some of these free songs for kids from this Music for Little People site.

Why would I listen to something so eclectic?

Well, when I close at work, I actually turn on my music in the store to give it something a little… different. This is especially important once the Christmas music starts in another month…

Wow, where has September gone? I mean, seriously! When I looked up, it was the beginning of the month, and now? The month is almost over, I’ve been to St. Louis and back for work, and my alma mater (go UCF Knights!) is 2-1 and keeping it real.

Maybe there’s some sort of higher power to this all and I should listen to something like this free Creation Festival sampler on my iPod Touch. Or maybe? I should just bypass it and switch over to the new Miley Cyrus. What? “Party in the U.S.A.” is addictive!

I have to say, I’m enjoying all the free music that Amazon is giving away. I’m not even a big country music fan, but I went ahead and downloaded this free Discover Texas Music: volume 1 album. Then I picked up this free Kate Walsh Acoustic EP. The three songs on her album are $0.99 individually, but free if you download the entire album, so…that makes sense? Something tells me whoever set those prices didn’t quite think it all the way through.

I like freebies that only ask for two pieces of information, like this free Trace Adkins mp3. Just give them your email and zip code and they’ll send you a link to download a free song. Pretty soon freebies might only ask for your email. Then in the future, they might not even ask for that! They’ll take freebie requests via telepathy. Man, that’d be awesome.

Wait a minute…then that’d make my job here pretty useless. Doh!

To celebrate getting a million followers on Twitter (wow, HIF doesn’t even have nearly that many ), Amazon is giving away a $1.29 credit that can be used to download a free mp3 song. The credit will be applied to your account and most songs are only $0.99, so you can actually get a song and a third for free!

Amazon is also running an offer this month of 50 different albums for only $5. They have albums from bands like the Rolling Stones, Steely Dan, John Coltrane, The Roots, Willie Nelson, Gloriana, Marie Digby, Crystal Method, Fabolous and Shinedown. So…pretty much something for everybody. It might be worth checking out if you’re a music buff. Check out the banner below for more info.

And finally, as we’ve written about before, Amazon offers a hoard of free music available to anybody who wants it. The current count of freebies stands at 1,200, so never again shall you complain that you have nothing to listen to!

I’ll listen to and play almost anything musically. Seriously. If my statement there wasn’t evidence enough, I just filled in on bass guitar for a vocal group that was playing Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, and a ton of classic fun dancing songs like “The Twist” and “Locomotion.” Yup. The grunge/indie songwriter me sat in on bass guitar.

But what I’m finding even cooler than that is this free Celtic music sampler. I’ll listen to anything. Really. Especially because all I have stuck in my head now is Jonas Brother’s “Play My Music”…

I went to the Warped Tour once. It was back in Orlando in 2002. I skipped out on watching Good Charlotte to see Orlando local band Unsung Zeros play on a small side stage. Much better show than the big stage.

Needless to say, none of these bands on this free 2009 Vans Warped Tour sampler really ring a bell with me. Other than NOFX and Bad Religion. I guess that means I’m really getting old…

I hope our computers don’t turn blue and we don’t all go crazy while doves cry all over this free Purple Rain cover album. Though, if you’re caught in the purple rain and looking for the right word, the answer is “keyboardist”

And the Princely one himself hopefully would appreciate this tribute cover album. Heck, I’ll even admit that I enjoy the movie and the album…

EDIT: This offer is now expired.

I thought I was fairly up to date and remembered most musicians for at least one song. Heck, I’ll even admit that I have the Jonas Brother’s CD with “Burning Up” on it. But whenever I think of Ashley Tisdale, I’m drawing a complete blank and only remembering Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats.”

Maybe this free Ashley Tisdale party pack will help me remember. Or maybe I’ll just finally find my perfect shade of lip gloss in it with just enough stickers to cover my private brands guide binders at work while I bop around to the CD that’s included too…