FREE reading materials aimed at beginner readers (yay!)
On the Tadoku graded readers website there is a page with links to a number of teacher-made pdfs at the various graded reader levels. Some of them are very low budget productions, but I think still worthwhile for the impoverished beginner. 
Kansai International Centre has similar home-made pdf booklets, and these ones also come with mp3s of someone reading each booklet aloud.
http://jfkc.jp/clip/yomyom/index.html
Slightly better production values (but same style of home-made PDF) available at Nihongo Tokuhon. Hover over レベル別の読み物 at the top to access materials at levels 0 - 2.
And if you were wondering about the word Tadoku (which I was because I kept seeing it on all these websites):
自分で読めるやさしい本をたくさん読むことを「多読」といいます。
多読しましょう！