Free (legal) Concert Downloads

[volinbham]

You guys may already know about this site.

Internet Archive: Live Music Archive

It's a section in the "Internet Archive" - a kind of online museum.

The live music section has thousands of lossless (FLAC) and mp3 concerts for download from bands that are "trade-friendly". In other words, there are no copyright issues with these downloads.

It's not the easiest to navigate through and many of the artists aren't mainstream but there is some great stuff here.

Enjoy.

 

[doozer]

Also, etree.org is great as well if you know how torrents work.

 

[Jasongivm6]

db.etree.org is a great place for show lists. I used to b&p alot in the day. Some people find it difficult and frustrating to understand torrents, SHN's, wav's and how to convert them, myself included.

 

[volinbham]

Also, etree.org is great as well if you know how torrents work.

From what I can tell, the link I posted is maybe a subset of etree.org?

There is some type of coordination between the two groups with my guess being that the Internet Archive has a subset and has converted the torrent stuff into FLAC and mp3 files for easier access.

 

[doozer]

most torrents are either FLAC or SHN anyway so all you have to do is convert them with flac_front end to .wav.

i'm not really sure why some bands are on one or the other, or both.