From the glory days of MTV in the 1980s right up to the Internet music era in 2009, passionate fans of top artists have harbored a special attraction to music videos. A few decades ago, producers began to order these mini-films to showcase new talent and to introduce new songs. Video gave a dimension to music that radio could never capture, and for a long time the only place you could see music videos was on TV. Nowadays, however, people download videos easily and legally off the Internet any time they like.
Just about everybody knows you can get music videos by paying a small fee to iTunes, but just about nobody really wants to pay money for something they used to watch for free on VH1 or MTV. Since the advent of reality TV, the odds of finding any free downloads from the so-called music stations are just about nil, but there is no shortage of websites providing you all the resources you need to get the videos you want.
The entertainment networks, Fuse, MTV, and Yahoo!, for example, list videos you can watch for free any time. They change their selections as producers seek to promote new artists. You typically get to watch any video that promoters want you to rate without paying a fee, and often the site will list links to give you new bandwidth options or listen to new artists or new songs by the same artist.
Not to be overlooked is YouTube, which posts tens of thousands of music videos. Some labels will pull videos from YouTube almost as quickly as they are put up claiming posting on YouTube violates copyright, but most labels are OK with YouTube because they value free publicity.
Where you find the link to download a free music video will depend on the artist you want to hear. Often, official band websites will feature free downloads along with b-sides, rare tracks, and new streaming tracks from upcoming releases. You can find hubs where generous bands and new artists list videos for free, but these hubs tend to have fewer major artists and more new artists. And there are ways to download software that allows you record from streaming video, such as YouTube or your favorite artist’s site.
Whatever you decide to do, it is 100% possible to locate and view free music downloads from the Internet. Even if the music stations don’t offer what you want, hundreds of millions of fans around the earth still find exactly the videos they want to view.
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