OFF: Re: Hi again

[Stephen Swann]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:20:53PM -0400, Albert Bouchard wrote:
> On Aug 17, 2004, at 10:24 PM, Stephen Swann wrote:
> > problem is how to get to hear it, since Napster and its
> > clones got litigated out of existence, and (the once
>
> Come on you know Napster never promoted any new music. It was all about
> getting stuff you already knew was good for free! ;-)

Actually, I like to own CDs, gives me a nice solid
materialistic feeling of ownership.  ;-) And the quality of
most shared MP3s *sucked*.  By the time they were starting
to use better algorithms/bitrates, the whole thing came
crashing down.

Anyway, what I used to do was surf for stuff that I knew I
liked, the browse that user's directory to see what else
they had, on the grounds that if they liekd on of my
favorite bands, maybe they would know of other good stuff
that I hadn't heard of.  I can name about 30 CDs that I
bought strictly because of Napster.

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