Anyone else miss Limewire?

@SW-User Yeah but that's no fun! It's not nearly as satisfying to pay a record company for music even if you can afford it. I can afford music but I still pirate because, come on, am I really about to pay for Beatles music? Half the band are filthy rich and the other half are dead.

@SW-User Audio Galaxy was way better. 😌

@BlueMetalChick I hear you about that, I loathe the music industry with the fire of a million suns and these days I get most of my music from places like 7digital and the like, where I can get FLACs or even 24/96 stuff. I have a Spotify account that I mostly use for finding new stuff that's worth buying because I can hear compression artifacts even in 320k MP3s.

@Elegy I vaguely remember that. Oh yeah, one thing I did was borrow CDs from the library and rip them.

@SW-User Ok see now that I understand. If it's music from an upcoming band or something, I'll absolutely buy their music to support them.

@SW-User Being able to hear compression artifacts sounds like just the worst curse. Shitty mp3s sound pretty okay to me and I am delighted to be limited in that way :D

@CountScrofula don't get me started on my decades-long war for sound quality 😭 Dust sparkles on records, cassettes that never played at the right speed (or worse, got subtly faster and slower), aliasing on early CD players, compression artifacts, RF leaks, it goes on and on.

@BlueMetalChick Yeah, to me this is the new model that has the potential to save the music industry. The democratization of production and distribution that's happened recently is the biggest change in music in my life, and I'm so glad to see the monopoly of the old dinosaurs slowly crumbling and blowing away in the wind.

Sousa hated the phonograph because he correctly predicted the rise of the recording industry and the withering of musical talent that went with it.