Anyone know where to get retro music from?

[DEMON212]

Just all sorts of retro gaming tracks. Anyone have any legal ways to get them?

Either a shop that sells CD's or a place that allows you to DL them?

[Shortay]

Originally Posted by DEMON212

Just all sorts of retro gaming tracks. Anyone have any legal ways to get them?

Either a shop that sells CD's or a place that allows you to DL them?

I was actually wondering this too. I'd love to download (legally, of course) the Ocarina, retro Mario etc. tracks, but I don't know where to get them.

[Jogurt the Yogurt]

For the more popular series like Zelda, you should be able to find official soundtracks in almost any online CD store with a big selection (here is Ocarina from Amazon). Lesser known stuff will of course be more difficult (if not impossible) to find through legal means.

[SegaFan]

A lot of soundtrack CDs are unavailable outside of Japan and importing is the only option.

I buy soundtrack CDs from http://www.yesasia.com and http://www.play-asia.com but there isn't a huge range of retro game soundtracks. Sometimes though, companies release compilations of retro game music which are almost exclusively Japan-only but usually available from those sites. Beyond that there's always ebay.

[DEMON212]

Originally Posted by SegaFan

A lot of soundtrack CDs are unavailable outside of Japan and importing is the only option.

I buy soundtrack CDs from http://www.yesasia.com and http://www.play-asia.com but there isn't a huge range of retro game soundtracks. Sometimes though, companies release compilations of retro game music which are almost exclusively Japan-only but usually available from those sites. Beyond that there's always ebay.

Thanks, I'll take a look

[theUndead_feature]

I think this is legal...I'm not sure. You can take it off if you want, just don't slap me with a piracy warning.
http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks.php
There's anime, too. Most old games can be found in the MIDI section.

[Juice_Lee]

http://vgmusic.com/

A pretty big compendium of video game MIDIs. I can't really help you on official mp3s, but there is a lot of great music there.

ocremix.org
Always a wonderful place with tons of great remixes and a very professional community. All free. There is great stuff to be found here.

[Pocketim]

This isn't much help but once I saw a Harvest Moon CD on www.trademe.com, its a NZ site though and there isn't much overseas shipping

[kelvingreen]

Originally Posted by DEMON212

Just all sorts of retro gaming tracks. Anyone have any legal ways to get them?

Either a shop that sells CD's or a place that allows you to DL them?

Well, there's OverClocked Remix, which, as the name suggests, is more into remixes than original tracks from the games. I also recently discovered Galbadia Hotel, which seems to have a lot of original game rip mp3s for download. It's a bit of a slow interface though; in order to download a whole album rather than each individual track, you have to register.

[DEMON212]

Originally Posted by kelvingreen

Well, there's OverClocked Remix, which, as the name suggests, is more into remixes than original tracks from the games. I also recently discovered Galbadia Hotel, which seems to have a lot of original game rip mp3s for download. It's a bit of a slow interface though; in order to download a whole album rather than each individual track, you have to register.

As you're a big C64 fan, you might be interested in c64audio.com

They've got some brill tracks

Thanks guys