diff --git a/command/get.go b/command/get.go
index 394a9931c..2d3dec4a5 100644
--- a/command/get.go
+++ b/command/get.go
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/config/module"
 )
 
 // GetCommand is a Command implementation that takes a Terraform
@@ -39,7 +41,8 @@ func (c *GetCommand) Run(args []string) int {
 	}
 
 	_, _, err := c.Context(contextOpts{
-		Path: path,
+		Path:    path,
+		GetMode: module.GetModeGet,
 	})
 	if err != nil {
 		c.Ui.Error(fmt.Sprintf("Error loading Terraform: %s", err))
diff --git a/command/get_test.go b/command/get_test.go
index dcde6d6b0..b779222f8 100644
--- a/command/get_test.go
+++ b/command/get_test.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package command
 
 import (
 	"os"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/mitchellh/cli"
@@ -17,11 +18,16 @@ func TestGet(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	args := []string{
-		testFixturePath("graph"),
+		testFixturePath("get"),
 	}
 	if code := c.Run(args); code != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("bad: \n%s", ui.ErrorWriter.String())
 	}
+
+	output := ui.OutputWriter.String()
+	if !strings.Contains(output, "Get: file://") {
+		t.Fatalf("doesn't look like get: %s", output)
+	}
 }
 
 func TestGet_multipleArgs(t *testing.T) {
@@ -47,13 +53,13 @@ func TestGet_noArgs(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
 	}
-	if err := os.Chdir(testFixturePath("graph")); err != nil {
+	if err := os.Chdir(testFixturePath("get")); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)
 	}
 	defer os.Chdir(cwd)
 
 	ui := new(cli.MockUi)
-	c := &GraphCommand{
+	c := &GetCommand{
 		Meta: Meta{
 			ContextOpts: testCtxConfig(testProvider()),
 			Ui:          ui,
@@ -64,4 +70,9 @@ func TestGet_noArgs(t *testing.T) {
 	if code := c.Run(args); code != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("bad: \n%s", ui.ErrorWriter.String())
 	}
+
+	output := ui.OutputWriter.String()
+	if !strings.Contains(output, "Get: file://") {
+		t.Fatalf("doesn't look like get: %s", output)
+	}
 }
diff --git a/command/meta.go b/command/meta.go
index e2708dcd8..c7708eceb 100644
--- a/command/meta.go
+++ b/command/meta.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
 
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/config/module"
 	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/terraform"
@@ -93,6 +94,10 @@ func (m *Meta) Context(copts contextOpts) (*terraform.Context, bool, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("Error loading config: %s", err)
 	}
+	err = mod.Load(m.moduleStorage(copts.Path), copts.GetMode)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("Error downloading modules: %s", err)
+	}
 
 	opts.Config = mod.Config()
 	opts.State = state
@@ -152,6 +157,17 @@ func (m *Meta) flagSet(n string) *flag.FlagSet {
 	return f
 }
 
+// moduleStorage returns the module.Storage implementation used to store
+// modules for commands.
+func (m *Meta) moduleStorage(root string) module.Storage {
+	return &uiModuleStorage{
+		Storage: &module.FolderStorage{
+			StorageDir: filepath.Join(root, "modules"),
+		},
+		Ui: m.Ui,
+	}
+}
+
 // process will process the meta-parameters out of the arguments. This
 // will potentially modify the args in-place. It will return the resulting
 // slice.
diff --git a/command/module_storage.go b/command/module_storage.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0a33abe4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/command/module_storage.go
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package command
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/config/module"
+	"github.com/mitchellh/cli"
+)
+
+// uiModuleStorage implements module.Storage and is just a proxy to output
+// to the UI any Get operations.
+type uiModuleStorage struct {
+	Storage module.Storage
+	Ui      cli.Ui
+}
+
+func (s *uiModuleStorage) Dir(source string) (string, bool, error) {
+	return s.Storage.Dir(source)
+}
+
+func (s *uiModuleStorage) Get(source string, update bool) error {
+	s.Ui.Output(fmt.Sprintf("Get: %s", source))
+	return s.Storage.Get(source, update)
+}
diff --git a/command/module_storage_test.go b/command/module_storage_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b77c2b5f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/command/module_storage_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+package command
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/config/module"
+)
+
+func TestUiModuleStorage_impl(t *testing.T) {
+	var _ module.Storage = new(uiModuleStorage)
+}
diff --git a/command/test-fixtures/get/foo/main.tf b/command/test-fixtures/get/foo/main.tf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/command/test-fixtures/get/main.tf b/command/test-fixtures/get/main.tf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0ce1c38d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/command/test-fixtures/get/main.tf
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+module "foo" {
+    source = "./foo"
+}
diff --git a/command/test-fixtures/get/modules/3287951ef4002ba5dabcc7ef3ea0b206 b/command/test-fixtures/get/modules/3287951ef4002ba5dabcc7ef3ea0b206
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..3cbb92882
--- /dev/null
+++ b/command/test-fixtures/get/modules/3287951ef4002ba5dabcc7ef3ea0b206
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/Users/mitchellh/code/go/src/github.com/hashicorp/terraform/command/test-fixtures/get/foo
\ No newline at end of file