The SXSW festival will be held in Austin from March 12th through 16th, featuring FAR too many acts to list here. It’s an excellent venue to discover new artists from a large array of genres or to catch your favorite bands before they get huge, sell out and you bitch about how you liked them before everyone else liked them.

If you’re like most of us, though - you won’t be able to make it. Fear not, for the SXSW event has posted hundreds of tracks for your aural pleasure - 765, to be exact. In previous years these tracks have been available as a Torrent download. For unknown reasons there was no torrent this year, rather they posted links to all files individually. However, some enterprising chap has done the dirty work of compiling all of them into a torrent which weighs in at a hefty 3.4 gigs.

So clear some space on your hard drive and grab the mother lode. As the styles range from straight up rock to world sound, country to reggaeton, you’re bound to come across tracks you don’t like and some you’ll love. And if for some reason that’s not enough, the linked page also has past years’ torrents posted as well.

Keep in mind - as many of these folks are new on the scene and trying to ‘make it’, supporting them is important.