New York - Independent record label Team Love, co-founded by Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst, on Tuesday launched the Team Love Library, a rotating online archive of the label's existing releases and exclusive content that will be available for free download in the MP3 format.

"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," reads a note on Team-Love.com.

"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."

Current selections available for download include full albums from Tilly & the Wall, Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, McCarthy Trenching and Capgun Coup; future monthly offerings are also expected to include "unreleased songs, live or remixed versions of TL favorites."

"Anything you take from the library is yours to keep," the label added. "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."

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