Coach is right. Limewire is cancer. I have a program if you want that helps rid traces of Limewire, Kazaa, etc from your computer, if you want it.
Download Utorrent. Install it.
Download Peer Guardian, install it. This is not a necessary step, but I suggest you use it.
Go to the pirate bay like Coach said, or use btjunkie.org
find a torrent you like. The better the ratio of seeders to leachers the better, typically. also, if there, read some user reviews and ratings to help you decide if the torrent is good.
open the torrent and wait for the stuff to download.
What I suggest however, is the following.
I would subscribe to Napster, which is a monthly fee for unlimited music downloads service. You can literally download tens of thousands of songs. They will remain playable by you for as long as you keep your subscription active.
Before you cancel your subscription, there is a program you can use called Tunebite (or tunebyte, i don't recall at the moment) that will remove the DRM (copy protection) from those songs, so that when you kill your subscription, those songs will play just fine.
So, for maybe $50 or so for three months, you can download music legally to your hearts content, strip the protection, and voila! Much better than using Limewire, you won't be supporting Apple and the songs will play on all music players, something Apple doesn't like.
Last time I checked, you could get Napster songs as a 192kbps WMA file. They may do MP3 as well, but you'd have to check if you want to go that route. Then again, Tunebite will take care of that for you if you care.
To summarize, if you want music, your best option is the subscription service used with Tunebite.
Next best option are using torrents. You can find some really obscure music this way, but generally you are at the mercy of some potential idiot who doesn't know how to rip music properly.
Limewire is not an option.
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