Grooveshark

One of my favourite websites is Grooveshark (http://listen.grooveshark.com/). note: I haven't completely figured out hyperlinking yet but I'm getting there but the posts can't wait so bear with me. Anyways, Grooveshark is a free online "radio player"where you can create playlists from the songs they have and stream online. You're not downloading them ala iTunes but streaming so it just cost you bandwidth. To be perfectly honest, I prefer Last FM (http://www.last.fm/) but they require a fee after a trial period and I'm just not into that. Grooveshark falls into that gray area where they do have some agreements in place with record companies but not for all of the music that they have listed. They do have a lot of music. I have some pretty random tastes and I have been able to find most of the songs that I've gone looking for. Right now I'm into everything from the Rolling Stones to The Specials to Horace Andy to Gypsy/Roma music to New Zealand music not made by Flight of The Conchords. My goal is to make up some playlists that I can attach to posts so that you can listen to a selection while reading my blog. I'm not going into the whole argument about whether it's right or not. The way I feel at this stage is that it has been around long enough (music downloading) without a suitable solution either way that I'm just going to wait for a decision either way and then stick to that. But in the meantime if bands are going to stream songs on their myspace site or radio stations are streaming live online or I can find videos on youtube then I will stick to streaming and not downloading. You can make the choice when I put a playlist on whether you want to listen to it or not.