HearYa strikes gold again after compiling an easy to see [i.e. all in one place] collection of MP3s from artists performing at SXSW this year. Last year they had a zipped [??] download of all such tunes but I haven’t seen that yet. On the SXSW site you would have to view each artist individually but this is much easier if you want to quickly explore some artists [use Songbird and you can grab them all at once!]

Here’s an instant correction:
And actually from the comments on that page I’ve just seen:

For the really greedy, there’s this, released earlier today (Sunday 02/18/07):
http://player.sxsw.com/torrents/SXSW_2007_Showcasing_Artists-Release_1.torrent
That’s 739 songs in 3.1Gb.

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