With your smartphone having more and more storage, filling it with music online needs either a large investment in digital music stores, or a walk on the wild side of the internet. Or does it? Ewan has a look at free alternatives to loading up tunes to your phone without having to bother with those tiresome silver CD thingies...
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You mention last.fm but forgot to say that there are thousands of free tracks for download on that site.
Tribe of Noise have free mp3 downloads from thousands of artist
http://www.tribeofnoise.com
Nice article, especially the point about obscurity versus piracy. I use a Nokia 6120c here in the US, and have been hoping Nokia will open its Music Store here, but alas, they haven't yet. But I found a great option for OTA music downloads (albeit not free): Amazon! Using the phone's web browser, I can go straight to Amazon MP3 download page, find the song I want, purchase it, and download it straight to my phone. Takes awhile, since I'm in a location T-Mobile hasn't rolled out 3G for yet, but it works fine for me. It even correctly displays the album art when I open the song in the Music Player. Brilliant.
Magnatune's entire catalogue is freely downloadable (albeit only an album at a time). They have some great music, and they're not evil.
http://magnatune.com
For free, legal streaming music, I'd recommend http://www.deezer.com over last.fm any day. They don't offer MP3 downloads, but their huge variety is unrivaled in the legal free online music scene.