10 Legal Ways to Find Cheap Music

You don't have to risk a lawsuit to get your music for cheap -- or free.

More than four years after the Recording Industry Association of America began suing individuals for downloading copyrighted music from peer-to-peer networks like Grokster, cheap music can be found in a variety of places. Some recording artists are even giving it away.

In July, Prince made his new album, "Planet Earth," available as an insert in the Daily Mail newspaper in Britain. Ray Davies, formally of the Kinks, has a similar promotion, where he will offer 1.5 million copies of his latest album, "Working Man's Café," for free on Oct. 21 with the Sunday Times newspaper in the U.K. Alternative rockers Radiohead also are making available their new album "In Rainbows" for whatever each person thinks it's worth -- which means you can choose free -- on their Web site. ...