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When I lived on campus at my university, they had tough blocks on all the major p2p networks just like you described. I'm not a big downloader, like you, and when I had the occasional music that I wanted to download, I had great success just using IRC or once in a while connecting to a DC++ hub. While all the big p2p programs were stopped, these two methods seemed to work relatively well...you just needed to be more patient in finding what you're looking for.
On a slightly humorous side note, when iTunes boomed into popularity on windows, I gave it a try. The university network didn't like it, though, and it literally took the better part of a day to download one legally purchased song. It was faster for me to track down a fileserver on IRC than to go through the music store and pay for it. Turns out that the packetshaping rules hadn't been touched for upwards of 2 years, and the IT department is looking into reconfiguring them now that they are aware of the problem.
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