I get regular inquiries from students regarding internet sites that offer free or cheap-to-license music for use in your films. Here are a few which have been useful in the past couple of years. I list them roughly in order of preference.
PS - Please let me know if any of these links have gone dead since I put this list together last year.
Jamendo - Jamendo has a LOT of free stuff. Try it first.
Vimeo Music Store - mostly commercial ($99 for a festival license) but also has free (Creative Commons Share-Alike License)
SoundCloud - online file locker for audio. Nice player software, and many items licensable for the asking.
Overview | Music | Musopen - recent site with only copyright-free material. Mostly old recordings and/or government produced.
With Etiquette - collective of alternative musicians who make their music available for low license fee.
songfreedom.com - commercial stock music site
UniqueTracks Inc. - commercial stock music site, good selection, low rates ($40)
Royalty Free Music Library from premiumbeat.com - commercial stock music site
Stock Music - Royalty Free Music with an Edge - commercial stock music site
Of course, there is also the Cyclops server, where Mario and Rick Andersen maintain a library of approximately 10,000 titles of stick music, for which the college pays a flat fee each year on your behalf.
Last but not least, there is also the world's biggest recorded music store, iTunes. While it's not always easy to license music found here, it's a fantastic resource for searching and experimenting with musical ideas. With 37,000,000 titles free to audition and available for download at about $1 per track (and no DRM!), there's no reason not to find music suitable for your temp-track.
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