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3.20.2006

Royalty-Free Music from Stock20

Just found out about a new group today that is offering royalty-free, unlimited drop production music for $7/track. The company is Stock20 and you get your first track free. The account is free as well, no annual fees for access.

Now, with the big promo line out of the way, what's the value? Well, having browsed through the selections myself:

  • the library is quite small so far (clearly a new endeavor)
  • the music sounds like production music
  • all tracks are available for multiple intervals (0:30, 1:00, 1:35, 2:00, 2:40, etc) all for the single purchase price
  • it's $7.00 per track.

I'll leave you to make your own judgements, but my opinion is this: for $7.00, you aren't going to get John Williams. Ever. It's legal, unlimited uses for a single price, so no more breaking (or bending) the law to make your work that looks professional sound professional. And hey, sure it sounds like production music, but it's decent production music at a seemingly impossible low price with no annual contracts or commitments.

At the very least, go find one track you think you could use and sign up for your free account to download it. Good luck to them, they're definitely on the right track.

UPDATE: Two updates actually. First, they have just released 6 new tracks for March. Secondly, if you use my referral code, we both get an extra $7 in free music.

Here's how:
1) Click this link to use me as your referral, then create a free account (it takes about a minute).
2) Your new account will automatically be credited with $7 (enough to get a free song).
Then you will get an additional gift certificate by e-mail, just for creating an account. $14 worth of free music...pretty snazzy.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

great review!
just visited and I love their music.

thanks for directing me there.

Christian said...

Thanks! I'm still pretty happy with Stock20 myself, though I wish they'd post more music more frequently.

Anonymous said...

heard a lot about this site becauase music is like almost free so guess there are probably plenty of people using these few same tracks. Not many tracks on their site though so I am concern if it will be over used.

Also saw someone posting that you can sign up again and again so you never have to pay for their music. Good idea.

Christian said...

Dishonest people will always find a way to take the property of others without compensation. Likewise, there is a way to cheat every system on the planet, but honest folks aren't interested.

I wonder if the people who find and share these kinds of ideas ever stop to think about how their activities increase the cost for those of us who make an honest purchase? I'd imagine they aren't smart enough to consider such things in the first place, nor would it affect their actions.

At $7.00 per track, "almost free" is about right. Just be an honest customer.

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2009 DREAM said...

No wonder why you get so many feedbacks
copyright free music