your CPU is gonna be fucked up if you keep downloading this much shit.

wow, thats a beautiful website. I need to get some more blank cds.

Pardon the old guy but I have a question. Where exactly is that you are downloading these whole ablums? You're not using p2p software that the recording industry is watching like a hawk are you?

I really like that XSAO site for previewing albums. Much better than the 30 second snippets from AMG or Best Buy. Judging from the sound quality of Xsao I wouldn't want to burn anything to disc though.

just curious.

jc

I am using two extremely little known p2p programs.

The ones I use aren't reallyof interest to the industry eiter...at the moment, anyway. But on a good week I never got that far. Actually I haven't DL'ed much lately, except a few sample songs to check out a band here and there; when I wasn't working I was doing much more; a lot of it is stuff I never would have bought, unfortunately. Such is the scene these days, with us having to dig through stuff to turn up that one good band here and there.

Still, even when I did this a lot...I never did that much! I bow to Geryon...

I usually don't get this much, really. I am just bored cause I have a long weekend and I already did all my homework, read a few books, and beat like five video games, and now I'm just hanging around searching for music. Today is dedicated to more electronic music! Besides there are tons of albums out there that I probably should already have that I'm getting, like those Beatles albums. Plus I'm kinda making up for lost time, two years listening to nothing but nu metal... (shakes head)

If I remember your age right, you've got plenty of time to catch up I wouldn't sweat it.

Well, that's cryptic enough! I understand though. I'm certainly not the moral majority here as I have my share of CDRs. MP3's in general have never had much appeal to me other than to preview some toons to see if it's going to be something I have a decent chance of liking. Then of course it got to the point where it just wasn't worth it for me. Fortunately I have a pretty decent library system here and they do a good job of keeping decent music around. Also I have a number on internet buddies and we get to shopping off each others lists from time to time. While it's certainly going to be seen as an attempt to rationalize, this little system lets me hear stuff I wouldn't have been able to otherwise and in the end on the stuff I really like I end up buying a new one when it comes out or investigating their catalog to grab older stuff. In the end I wind up buying more and more music every year although the RIAA doesn't seem to see it that way.

Here is a site that may be of interest to some who like their bootleg recordings:

http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php The nice thing here is that the show are posted with a lossless compression scheme, either shn or flac. It helps to use an FTP client to d/l the shows. While the site seems to be mainly geared to jam bands since they generally have more tolerant views of the recording of their shows, there are some other bands of note as well:

311
Butthole Surfers
Mogwai
Godspeed You Black Emporer
Calexico
Spoon
Fugazi
...trail of dead
Camper Van Beethoven
And the Mermen, a personal fave of mine.

Recording quality varies but there are reviews making it easier to get the highest quality shows. FYI, the Calexico from April 25 is a sound board recording and superior to most live CDs available for sale.

Regards,
jc

Haven't DLed too much today, had to organize my music folders:
Kreator - Extreme Aggression
Coil - Time Machines
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy
Autechre - Amber
Autechre - Tri Repetae

That is a really excellent site, ive dled a bunch of GD shows, and a few Keller Williams performances. But one thing bothers me, they have shows by every jam band except Phish.