life without p2p

[Molson]

what in god's name was life like without p2p sharing crap? i dont think i can remember saying, "ooh i want that song!" and having to go to the store to buy it. not to say i ever dled songs off p2p of course (shifty eyes). i think p2p has become such a big part of (some of) our lives we dont even realize that there was a point when it didnt exist. strange huh? well thats how i feel anyways.

[Siskabush]

It was bad. really bad.
The radio's no repeat workday is the same playlist everyday. Metal and Trance got pushed off of Muchmusic and CD store shelves to make way for britney's 20 new albums of shit. It got bad quick.

Then napster came along, I still remember being amazed, and showing all my friends and saying "Yeah, if you get napster, you can download ANY SONG you want!! for free!!"

[shawners]

Me and my friend was in music clubs, when he bought a cd, i recorded it on to tape, VICE versa.. I remember many times wanting a device to copy cds on to cd's and saying how cool would that be. =)

[isus]

i didn't even care about music before napster.

mtv, what's that?

[RJ5500]

Before p2p and before I owned a cd burner, I used to make custom compilation cassette tapes from records and CDs.

Yeah, cassette tapes were 'all that' to me for many years.

Before p2p, I braved the trenches of private ftps and downloaded songs on dial-up. It really sucked when I ran across a 'ratio' ftp because I couldn't download from it.

[Wolfie]

I was looking up the anime section at BestBuy the other day, (while my gf was exchanging stuff, of course) and it just hit me how much my monthly expense would be without p2p.

[cjules13]

I know... I'm jealous of some of the younger cats here - you've had it made since day 1! Like shawners said, a lot of times you could go to second-hand tunes, buy some stuff, record it to tape, and then resell it back at a $2 loss or something.

I rememeber taping 60min blocks at a time on the radio in hopesof extracting a song (at FM quality) to record onto a "hits" tape (at 2nd gen tape + FM quality). And then I bought a lot of singles when they were popular...

There was more personal trading going on too... cassette dubs were big and we would trade those.

It kind of like cell phones now. Somehow, in the past, and I have no clue how it was possible, we managed to get to together for activities and going out without cell phones. I can't imagine how anything got done or people met without them, but it was possible somehow :)

[shawners]

IN the mid and early 80's. My dad business had CB radios which were expensive, then those big field phones was availabe.. talk about really expensive!! And not as much clarity.. As far as just trading CD's with friends for a week or two and making it on cassettes.. IT was a hassle but everyone did it. You had to program the cd to play 35 minutes of music or 40 minutes of music and record it to one side, then do it over to the other side. We had DOT Matrix printers if you wanted to print it out on a commodore or IBM aptiva computer.

[muffenme]

:fire

I just got cassette when they where avaible. Now I just download it.

I remember they Commodore printer, did you had a chance back then to be lucky to have GEOS. I sure that made the cassettee jacket look great because you could put a simple b&w pitcher on it and have the tracks listed on the back, I could be way off because I haven't really used a C-64 in about 10 to 12 year now.

:hole

[Kooperman]

In the 1960's about all you could do was swap record albums ( vinyl...remember that?) with friends in order to hear new music without buying it. If you were one of the few tech-savvy music lovers you might have a reel to reel tape recorder you could record the music with....but you needed real deep pockets because reel to reel was very expensive. In the early 70's I discovered cassettes and got a player/recorder, although it was made for use in automobiles. I got a battery charger and rigged it up to work in the house, then borrowed every album I possibly could.....weeks of recording from my record player yielded cassettes I still have to this day (only a few have disentegrated to this point). Quality wasn't great, but it was better than direct off the radio. For headphones, I used two small auto speakers strung together with wire.....with the volume on the record player or cassette player set low it sounded pretty good, at least to someone who had never seen professional headphones. So you younger music lovers see what primitive methods we had to use long ago.....hope you enjoy modern technology and methods of acquiring music as much as I have. The last 3 or 4 years have seen many changes evan a dinosaur can love.

[Kevin06906]

Yeah i didn't care much about music either.

Then like three years ago i bought korn and limp bizkit cd's.

Then, i had my old shit computer with a 56K modem and Napster...so Napster kinda sucked cause it went really slow.

But now..that's really all i do now is just download anything off p2p.

[UBER-RAT]

before p2p i was getting ripped off with filler album after album, given favourable reviews by corrupt journalists.

now i dont get ripped off :)

[ms.haley]

Yeah I remember when downloading music was a f*-kin blast If I could just get something that would work TODAY ..I ve downloaded like 3 programs and removed them all because everything is so slow..... :black AHHHhhh..tell me it gets better!

[Empire]

Yeah I remember when downloading music was a f*-kin blast If I could just get something that would work TODAY ..I ve downloaded like 3 programs and removed them all because everything is so slow..... :black AHHHhhh..tell me it gets better!
In my day, all we had was the Victrola. You had to crank it up, worked on an internal spring, then put the needle down on it and listen to scratchy, 78 RPM blues and opera.

Ahhh. Those were the days. You haven't heard music until you hear Caruso on a Vic. To get stereo headphones we had to get two Victrolas, and two copies of the same record and start them both at JUST the right second. If you were good you could get stereo for a few seconds.

The only record store was 150 miles away and I could only afford one record per year. I got my Victrola by trading some beaver skins to an Indian who'd got it from a British soldier's corpse in the battle of Quebec. It was still working even though it had a few dings in it where it had been hit by musket balls.

For fun we'd crank it up and put my little sister on it and watch her spin round and round. Man those were the good old days.

To trade music we didn't have the Internet. We had to use the pony express. It took about 3 months to "download" a song that way. My older sister used to do "favors" for the pony express guy so we always got good service.

[cjules13]

In my day, all we had was the Victrola. You had to crank it up, worked on an internal spring, then put the needle down on it and listen to scratchy, 78 RPM blues and opera.

Ahhh. Those were the days. You haven't heard music until you hear Caruso on a Vic. To get stereo headphones we had to get two Victrolas, and two copies of the same record and start them both at JUST the right second. If you were good you could get stereo for a few seconds.

The only record store was 150 miles away and I could only afford one record per year. I got my Victrola by trading some beaver skins to an Indian who'd got it from a British soldier's corpse in the battle of Quebec. It was still working even though it had a few dings in it where it had been hit by musket balls.

For fun we'd crank it up and put my little sister on it and watch her spin round and round. Man those were the good old days.

To trade music we didn't have the Internet. We had to use the pony express. It took about 3 months to "download" a song that way. My older sister used to do "favors" for the pony express guy so we always got good service.
Heh, you had me for a second until the 2 record player thing... Didn't the record player skip a lot when you were bumpin tunes on the back of your horse? I suppose you were thankful for what you had though :)