Fastest ways to rip music from the web?

Hey there.

I haven't downloaded nearly as much music since the Jim Wire days. Honestly, I just don't have the patience to sit here copying and pasting links one by one. Is there a better way to do this? Somewhere I can just grab a solid 200-300 MB chunk of music all at once? I'm mostly looking for local indie stuff and maybe some hits from our neighbors, though a mix of international tracks wouldn't hurt either. It’s usually easier to find big batches of foreign music in a single zip file, but where am I supposed to find "our" music? Or better yet, what's the easiest way to just download a huge pile of it?

If you know your way around torrents, this solves everything.
On sites like The Pirate Bay or whatever else is out there, you can find entire discographies or just single albums from local bands—not to mention all the international stuff. The selection is basically endless. You can mix and match too; if you aren't really feeling a certain band, just grab their greatest hits or one specific record... And if you care about audio quality, this beats YouTube's bitrate by a mile.

If you're looking for a quicker workaround, just grab the YouTube link and paste it into a site like youtube-mp3. It lets you download them one by one, which isn't exactly bulk downloading, but it gets the job done pretty fast enough...