The Internet was so different back then, before corporatization. There was so much promise in the thing. Now it’s just another tool for business.
it went from a truly weird, unique, mostly anti-commercial and grass roots place to literally just another dying mall
honestly it was a dogshit with shitty rips and mislabeled files, but the RIAA’s crackdown gave truly amazing BitTorrent sites where obsessive nerds got their chance to shine with their painstaking care to have quality rips, tagging, etc. and music fans could easily get rare and OOP albums
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<3 my physical media
oh no not the imaginary debt
yeah but have you considered that I have consumed entirely too much star trek at an impressionable age, ergo space shuttle good
gruber is racist trash and loving bootlicker of capital
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