Sorry for the ignorance guys, but what does "try some sort of torrent" mean?
A torrent is a P2P, "peer to peer" sharing network. Similar to the popular Limewire. From Torrents however you have a much wider selection of items to download, from popular software, to new movies. Some people are hesitant to use torrents because some of the "torrents" are copyrighted to illegaly distributed.
Just make sure you go to a trusted website like isohunt.com or thepiratebay.com...