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Downloading acoustic covers: where?

CrashtardCrashtard Registered User regular
edited May 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
I keep hearing these great acoustic versions of songs, and I want to download them bad. However, I can't find them via itunes or anything else. I'm 100% sure I could get them from limewire or something, but I'm unsure of the legalities of downloading those sorts of things since they are unreleased songs. Any ideas on where I can get something like that?

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  • Monolithic_DomeMonolithic_Dome Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Common places for these to hide:

    -B Sides on singles (check fan websites for the group, buy at amazon, ebay, or a good used record store)
    -bootlegs (again, good used record store)
    -greatest hits/boxed sets (if you are lucky)
    -Call up the radio station(I assume by "I keep hearing" you meant on the radio) and ask where the song came from. In fact, they might have been recorded by the radio station itself, who might sell a compilation disc
    -A lot of websites do exclusive performances. Check for those
    -They might be a cover by another band.


    List a few that you are looking for, depending on the genre I might know where they came from.

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  • SlickShughesSlickShughes Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    It might help to know what band in particular you're looking for. Some are easier to find than others, Foo Fighters for instance has a whole album of acoustic covers, OK GO has an ep of them. What artist/song are you looking for?

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  • CrashtardCrashtard Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Right now I'm looking for the song Softer to me acoustic by Relient K. I heard it on an itunes radio station.

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  • CrashtardCrashtard Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    This thread can be closed. I ended up torrenting the song because the cd is out of print and I couldn't find one anywhere online to buy used.

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  • JamesJames Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    It's on The Creepy EP.

    Which funnily enough I can't find anywhere :|

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  • CrashtardCrashtard Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    James wrote: »
    It's on The Creepy EP.

    Which funnily enough I can't find anywhere :|

    Me either. I couldn't even find a used copy, so I just torrented it. Probably send them a dollar.

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  • mtsmts Dr. Robot King Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    you can always search music blogs via hype machine

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