A note to whoever put together the “35 Places To Download Free, Legal MP3s” listicle I just found on DownloadSquad: I get it. Your readers are a bunch of mouth-breathing brats who want nothing more than to satiate their seemingly endless appetite for music without actually making an effort to obtain that music beyond right-clicking, and maybe having a wank over the greatness of Trent Reznor from time to time. And you need to cater to, and occasionally pander to, those tendencies. Fine. That’s the world we live in now, for better or worse. But.

Subtitling it “Sorry, RIAA!”? Really? That’s kind of stupid rich, given that a good chunk of the “free” sites you mention actually have agreements with RIAA member labels in which they give cash and/or “promotion” to the labels for the privilege of allowing that music to flow oh so freely. Like, say, SpiralFrog. Or iLike. Or… well, take your pick. I know that revolutionary tech-heads like you are all about sticking it to “the man” in the name of pageviews, but you might want to take some time and figure out just who, exactly, that man is before you make yourselves sound like morons.

35 Places To Download Free, Legal Music [Download Squad]