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Tag: Napster

  • A User Guide To Napster (Before It Became Legal)

    A User Guide To Napster (Before It Became Legal)

    Napster. An invidious presence which contributed to the decline of the music industry and facilitated mass piracy and the collapse of album sales, not to mention being responsible for our having to see Justin Timberlake onscreen in the film “Social Network”. All guilty as charged. But this enabler of free file-sharing also allowed great numbers…

  • Classic Lost Tracks: The Black Crowes: Feathers

    Classic Lost Tracks: The Black Crowes: Feathers

    You know when you hear a song that stops you in your tracks? Let me tell you about The Black Crowes’ track “Feathers”….. This was a song I had only ever read about. It was referred to in hushed tones amongst the Crowes cognoscenti, with the sort of reverence you only otherwise witness when people…

  • Why Listening To Music Now Is So Much Better Than It Was 30 Years Ago

    I was chatting recently with friends about listening habits… “It’s so much better and easier listening to music nowadays” I opined, expecting unanimous consent. None came. A piece of tumbleweed may have rolled across the bar. “I’m not so sure” offered one. “I think it all comes too easily nowadays. Years ago records were pretty…