![]() ![]() Public torrent trackers like the Pirate Bay were okay if you wanted the new Jack Johnson or Alicia Keys, but usually stalled out if you wanted anything even slightly off the beaten path. You could try your luck with finding sites like MediaFire hosting direct downloads of albums. Napster was dead and its replacements, Limewire and Kazaa, were filled with fake-out files, badly mislabeled files (who can forget the David Byrne classic album Another Green World?) and straight-up malware. You could, of course, download albums from iTunes, but they came with substantial DRM headaches. ![]() The iPod and other MP3 players had quickly given everyone the ability to listen to more albums than anyone who went through high school with a massive binder of CDs could have imagined, but you usually got that through a hodgepodge of ways. Getting music and listening to music on your computer in the mid-’00s was weird. And yet news yesterday that the site had shut down was mainly a reminder I hadn’t signed into the site since 2010. It was a happy day - a whole world of music to torrent was suddenly open to me. I wrangled my invite to What.cd in early 2008, while working an internship that required so little of us that one of the other interns would leave to go watch movies at the nearby AMC during the day. ![]()
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