Amie Street boasts a lot of high quality independent music.
Amie Street was launched halfway 2006 by three university seniors. It has become one of the most popular websites for independent music. Amie Street was acquired by Amazon in September 2010. As of September 22, 2010, all AmieStreet.com pages are forwarded to Amazon.com.
Many of the songs on the website are free. When a song becomes more popular it becomes more expensive, up to 98 dollar cents.
The music in the shopping cart is downloaded to your computer in the mp3 format packaged in a zip file complete with cover art. You can also listen online.
To download music you need to create an account. This is relatively easy and the email address used for signup is not checked.
Artists get 70% of the revenue Amie Street makes. Users who recommend music which becomes more popular as a result of the recommendation get free credit to download extra music.
Amie Street is a great website for downloading a lot of unknown music for free. They offer a fair deal to artists and users of the website.