Albums free for download by copyright owner

2007 studio album by Radiohead

2014 album by U2

2015 studio album by Miley Cyrus

LeftRightLeftRightLeft is the second live album by British rock band Coldplay. It was released on 15 May 2009 as a free download on their website, with physical copies being distributed in all of the succeeding dates from the Viva la Vida Tour. Before Live 2012 was made available, however, the album was removed from the band's website. On 13 August 2021, nearly twelve years after its initial release, the album was made available on streaming services.

2008 studio album by Nine Inch Nails

2008 studio album by Nine Inch Nails

The Smashing Pumpkins album

album by Angels & Airwaves

2015 extended play by Foo Fighters

Exmilitary, also known as Ex Military, is the debut mixtape by American experimental hip-hop band Death Grips, released for free on April 25, 2011, through the band's website.

compilation album

2010 soundtrack album by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

EP by Australian hip hop recording artist Iggy Azalea

2012 studio album by Death Grips

set of recordings of numbers stations

mixtape by rapper Iggy Azalea

The Smashing Pumpkins album

Moby album

TrapGold is the second and final mixtape by Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, who released it as a free digital download on 11 October 2012. American DJ and music producer Diplo and 1st Down of FKi executive produced the project, along with Azalea and Stix serving as co-executive producers. It also features a guest appearance from Juicy J and samples interviews from Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, David LaChapelle and Reiner Opoku.

2019 studio album by Moby

r.e.m.IX is a 2002 remix album of songs by R.E.M. from its 2001 album Reveal. Copies of that album were given to well-known remixers to see what they could do with its tracks and the band's favorite results were compiled to form this album. Out of the twelve original tracks on Reveal, six are found among the ten tracks on this album—there are two different versions of "The Lifting" and four of "I've Been High." "I'll Take the Rain" was the only one of Reveals three singles to be included on r.e.m.IX.

album by Foxboro Hot Tubs

2006 debut studio album by Diablo Swing Orchestra

Polygondwanaland () is the twelfth studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. The album was released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license, although the band allows their fans to make remixes. The band uploaded the master tapes online for anyone to freely use. The fourth of five albums released by the band in 2017, it was released on 17 November 2017.

2005 album by Explosions in the Sky

2008 debut mixtape by Kid Cudi

extended play by Meshuggah

2017 studio album by CEP

album by Run the Jewels

2010 video by Radiohead

2020 studio album by Nine Inch Nails

2020 studio album by Nine Inch Nails

1986 album by Cro-Mags

album by Danny Brown

RTJ4 is the fourth studio album by American hip-hop duo Run the Jewels. It was released digitally through their own Jewel Runners imprint via BMG Rights Management on June 3, 2020, two days earlier than scheduled, with physical editions released in September 2020. As with their previous albums, a download of the album is available for free through their website, with the option of paying for it via other digital providers. The album features guest appearances from Greg Nice, DJ Premier, 2 Chainz, Pharrell Williams, Mavis Staples, Josh Homme, and frequent collaborator Zack de la Rocha.

2014 album by Run the Jewels

2010 How to Destroy Angels EP

2011 album by Danny Brown

2014 studio album by Romana Lisa

album by The Charlatans

non-profit project that created a high quality studio recording and typeset score of Goldberg Variations

album by Wilco