Download any album you want!

Nowadays, people’s compact disc collections are dwindling while the folder labeled “Music” on their desktop is at an astronomical size. Buy why? Ever since people figured out that they can share and download music with one another via the internet, record sales have increasingly decreased (lol), leading to lawsuits and record label bankruptcy. Bottom line is its all about survival of the fittest, and in this context, the “fittest” are the ones who can download music fast and efficiently, with no cost, without buying an album ever again.

With that said, torrent sites are shite. They take days to download from, and you are risking getting a letter from your ISP saying to basically cut the shit and stop downloading torrents. On the other hand, torrents are good for very hard-to-find movies and music if you have the patience and want to leave your computer on for a few days to finish the download. P2P programs are another o.k. option, but again I would not recommend something like Limewire, as it’s easy to download a virus through those types of programs and a lot easier to get caught.

With my method, all you need is a little knowledge of Google and a program called WinRar, which you can download here. Download the latest, 3.71. It is trial software, but you don’t have to buy it to keep using it. You’re going to be downloading rar files, which is basically a zip file, or a way to compress many files into one.

Now all you need to do is go to Google (I would suggest using Firefox), type in the album you want, and then put rar after it. So for example, if I’m looking for the new Sheryl Crow album, I would type something like: ‘sheryl crow detours rar’ in the Google search box (without the apostrophe things).

Chances are you will get a lot of torrent sites when you search for an album. So if the first page of results are all torrent sites, go back up to the search box and just type ‘-torrent’ after your initial search. This gets rid of the results with the word torrent in them, and the same goes with any search; if your looking for the Jurassic Park movie, and you keep getting book reviews, type ‘Jurassic park –book’ and that should fix your problem.

When you finally find a site, you’re going to be looking for a “one-click web hosting” link, such as rapidshare.com, megaupload.com, z-share.net, filefactory.com, and the list goes on. Rapidshare is the most reputable along with megaupload in second. When you copy and paste the download link, it will bring you to a page, make you type in some sort of code verification deal, make you wait a minute, and then you will be able to download the file. Most albums are around 80MB, and when you’re done, you just need to extract the rar file. To do this, all you do is locate the downloaded rar file (for firefox, the default download location is your desktop) and right-click, then choose “Extract to [file name]”, and the contents of the file will extract to your desktop in the file name’s own folder.

With all that said, you can find and download pretty much anything through Google using this search method. Obviously, this isn’t the only way to search for files through Google, there are also search engines like filetube that will search only hosting sites for downloads, retrieving rapidshare and megaupload links galore. These file hosting sites are great because they are anonymous. Some of the cons would be the wait: they log your IP address so you can only download for example a daily limit of 300MB, or rapidshare will make you wait an hour on average between downloads. Also, you can only upload 100MB at a time to rapidhsare, so if youre downloading a movie, you might have to download 7 rs links, or find another link. If you are part of a forum site that shares music and movies, it may be a good idea to invest the 8 bucks a month and get a rapidshare premium account, which gives you unlimited downloads + no waits.

Also, if you do a search on Google for “Google hacks” you’ll find that there are a ton of ways to refine your search through the use of brackets and quotation marks and other ways to find exactly what you’re looking for. Any questions just comment, happy downloading !