So how are you young whippersnappers infuriating the RIAA these days?

[tenlittlebullets]

A year. A freaking year of the big computer being broken and having nothing but a netbook that can't install software and can't play music. Now it's finally fixed I have a bunch of last.fm artist recommendations that I want to follow up on, and... I don't know where to go. So, friends-list poll: if you download music, how do you do it?

Before my computer had an accident with a cup of tea, I got my musical theater and classical and opera mostly from LJ communities, and used DC++ for my goth fix. Tried torrents a couple of times but couldn't get them to work. I assume the LJ comms are still around; I've applied for membership at a couple of goth mp3-sharing comms, but none of them look very active, so I need suggestions. Easy ways to get torrents to work? P2P clients that aren't disgustingly spyware-ridden? Or, if any of you happen to partially share my taste in music, blogs or LJ comms where I can download all the House of Usher and Black Tape for a Blue Girl my little heart desires?

Bonus guess-the-lyrics music meme, based not on random playlist shuffling but on songs that have been stuck in my head recently.

1. It's a rip in the bustle and a rustle in the hay / and I'll pitch the quick fantastic / with flings of confetti and my petticoats a-way up high - The Miller's Son from A Little Night Music, mmebahorel

2. Because we may be the haunted men / but we will hold our heads up when / we're walking down the street of dreams

3. Will you bury me deep? / I must never be found / when at last I find sleep / and I'm cold in the ground

4. Aux clartés des étoiles / je crois encore la voir / entr'ouvrir ses longs voiles / aux vents tièdes du soir

5. Moments lost though time remains / I am so proud of what we were / no pain remains, no feeling / Eternity awaits Beloved - VNV Nation, mmejavert

6. In ancient times, if you were sick / they make you bleed / oh honey I know it hurts

7. Cupid from his favour'd nation / Care and envy shall remove / Jealousy that poisons passion / And despair that dies for love

8. I see no signals, I see no signs / this is our life that's undermined / It's just six before dawn / and the waves come crashing down, come crashing down

9. The history of the world, my pet / is learn forgiveness and try to forget - Sweeney Todd finale, viorica8957

10. We found you hiding, we found you lying / choking on the dirt and sand / Your former glories and all the stories / dragged and washed with eager hands