I've been thinking about this one for a bit. I don't buy a huge amount of music, but I'm finding that I'm buying more music online that I'm finding out about online from either podcasts or getting full-length MP3's to listen to from their websites.
Podcasts
i am jen - The Broken EP
Electronic Periodic - Element 11
Blind With Rain - The Chemical Window
Mankind is Obsolete - Rise
Industrial Radio Podcast - Blind with Rain pops up every once in a while on the podcast. Mankind is Obsolete popped up recently as a single song episode that I can't locate and again in the most recent female vocalist theme in episode 39.
Samantha Murphy - Somewhere Between Starving and Stardom
This one's a little different than the rest. I didn't actually buy it. The first podcast I ever listened to (Mashcast by Alex...which looks like it folded not long after that) did a giveaway contest for this album. I won, and got a signed copy for free. One of these days I'm going to get around to buying a copy to give away to someone.
Full length downloadables
Otto's Daughter - Becoming 001
They had a bunch of downloadable full length MP3's on their old site. The new one doesn't seem to have them up, but they have some videos posted. I preordered Becoming 001 and got it autographed. The new album, A New Kind of Heronie, is doing a preorder special again...the CD will be signed, a poster comes with this time and you get entered in a giveaway for a Daisy Rock guitar and a pre-release MP3 of one of the tracks from the album. I pre-ordered, natch.
Lunarclick - The EP and Toxicology
Kind of like Otto's Daughter, I found them from a link somewhere and there were full length MP3's on the site. The site's kind of down right now pending a redesign. I hope they don't forget the music. They're also planning a remix contest for the song Circles that I intend to participate in.
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