I would like to avoid all the recruiters
You shouldn't necessarily avoid recruiters. But you should avoid the wrong kind of recruiters.
There are two reasons that I say this. First, not all recruiters will take part of your paycheck forever. Some recruiters get paid by the company when they place someone - others get a fee just for locating candidates. These can be great opportunities for you, and you would be missing them out if you filter out everything that comes from a recruiter.
Second, not all companies will direct-hire people to IT positions. Recently I've worked for two different Fortune Five Hundred companies. These environments were hugely beneficial to my personal growth as an employee and contributed quite a bit to my personal development. Both companies only hired IT staff by working with recruiting companies, and provided very long very stable career opportunities.
While I share your frustration with the recruiting process and the recruiter spam (Just today I got a phone call for a position I posted to hire someone for, from a recruiter) they can still provide you with some opportunities you wouldn't get otherwise.
So what are the wrong kinds of Recruiters?
The wrong kind of recruiters are pretty obvious, pretty quickly. They do things you have heard about a lot. Like, Bait-and-Switch: they call about a specific job offer and say no, I have this other one I think you would be better for. Or they contact you about a position that doesn't have anything to do with your actual skill, but is based on a keyword search (IE: You have Javascript, so they send you a Java job offering).
These kinds of recruiters will always be coy about what the job is exactly, and will be reluctant to provide you with any information about the company you could, potentially, be interviewing with. This is bad for them (because the more educated you are heading into an interview, the better your options are for getting a good job).
Good recruiters are the opposite of this. They will send you specific jobs that they think you are interested in, they will provide you with lots of information about the company you will be interviewing with, and the jobs they send you will reasonably match your skills (though no job will be a 100% match).
I looked over job listing websites and everything I found was Hi, we're a recruiter
You're looking in the wrong places. I went through a four week job search, and the best resource I found for actually getting interviews was through Craigslist. The interesting thing about these postings was that 95% of them said "Do not contact us if you are a recruiter." These are usually small business that don't want to partner with a larger company like that, or have had (similar) bad experiences with recruiting companies.
Ultimately, I found my job by working with a recruiter who was being paid by the company to locate someone. Out of pocket cost to me was $0 a year. Forever. But I had three job offers from interviews I had done just through Craigslist.
I also had two interviews convert into Job Offers that I got through LinkedIn. It's a very useful resource if you are looking to target specific companies, but it does require some time to build a useful network.