How Do I Open .tar

I have asked this question before but the search feature failed me.

I just downloaded what I think is an album of music off of bittorent and it is a 800kb tar file.

How do you open and use this music.

thanks for any help, and dealing with such a newbish question.

http://www.winzip.com/aboutzip.htm

you need winrar not winzip <_<


http://www.rarlabs.com/download.htm

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you need winrar not winzip <_<

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winzip works with tar files