What if there was a library where you never had to worry that somebody had already checked out what you wanted and there were no late fees? Now what if that library was filled with something like the catalog of indie label Team Love? Sounds like a dream, but guess what?! It exists.

Tuesday, Team Love Records launched their online library. Basically, they’re letting you download artists for free and letting you keep them with no hidden deletion dates or anything sneaky like that. All you have to do to start downloading is essentially get your (free) library card on their website.

This is what the label has to say about the free downloads:

When Team Love started we had the simple and possibly self-defeating notion that posting all our albums on the website as free downloads would be a good detour around the wreckage of the music industry and a way to avoid getting bogged down in the number one topic of discussion and distraction: piracy, illegal downloads, P2P networks and so on.

Five years later and the debate still drones in the background, and while some bands have adopted a mutated version of the “free download” (pay what you wish, etc), we’ve decided to reshape out policy in a different direction and introduce the Team Love Library. Each month (or so) we’ll be rotating the Library’s selections, featuring different Team Love albums as well as exclusive content such as unreleased songs, live or remixed versions of TL favorites.

The library will be open to the public 24/7, and as we have an endless abundance of MP3’s (we fucked up and made too many of them), anything you take from the library is yours to keep. You will not be notified if you fail to return something on time, and you will not lose your library privileges if you share selections with friends.

Team Love Records was founded by songwriter Conor Oberst. Its roster includes the following artists: Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, The Felice Brothers, Simon Joyner, Tilly and the Wall, A Weather, The Berg Sans Nipple, Mars Black, Capgun Coup, David Dondero, El Madmo, Flowers Forever, Nik Freitas, Joker’s Daughter, McCarthy Trenching, Gruff Rhys, Rig 1 and Craig Wedren.

Team Love: website | myspace

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