My Shits and Giggles

Rock music in 2008 was dominated by relics from the past, most returning with respectable albums: Guns ‘n Roses, AC/DC, Metallica and, er, Coldplay. But there was better stuff to be found, even if it didn’t, like “Chinese Democracy,” take 17 years to create.

Top 10 rock albums of 2008

The guitar is an instrument that knows no genre and no boundaries–one of the reasons why it’s arguably the world’s most beloved instrument. Here are over 30 incredibly useful (and often entertaining) websites dedicated to the guitar and its admirers.

Have you ever been annoyed that services like Muxtape (which is currently unavailable, thanks to the RIAA), Favtape or other playlist-based music sites don’t let you download songs? The better sites offer a link to purchase the songs through the iTunes Store or Amazon.com, but the rest just stream the music. And once the player moves on to the next song, that song is gone.

Or is it? Most services like the ones above rely on Flash or JavaScript to obfuscate URLs and make it difficult, though not impossible, to download the actual files.

In this guide, we’ll show you how you can grab just about any file you want by exploring your browser’s cache.

[Download MP3s from Streaming Music Sites]

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What is it with this woman?

[Top 45 Music Websites for Free Music]

100 Essential Jazz Albums by The New Yorker.