Real talk; nothing will ever compare to Napster

[duncanthetall]

Made so much dough burnin CDs for nikkas in middle school, brehs. Used to off Napster.

I miss that shyt

 

[filial_piety]

This thread is on point and then some.

If you were around during the Napster movement from 99-2001 then you witnessed history first hand.

Back in 99'-2000 I was in my dorm room with my University issued laptop, and sitting comfortably in my draws downloading everything and anything with a face like and

Back then downloading and burning were completely revolutionary. Before then, you always had to buy an album for the most part. Although I use to dub albums on cassetts sometimes, that Napster almost as important as the invention of the internet itself.

 

[Bboystyle]

WinMx and Audio Galaxy >>>>>


Sorry but once Napster hit its peek there was alot of fake shyt and virus's...I always got my rare shyt off of WinMx and Audio Galaxy...



Ill even say that Kazaa was better. Up until 2005 when it turn into a virus breeding center

 

[1986]

man, fukk Napster, the greatest was Audio Galaxy. There wasn't one song on there I couldn't find the rarest instrumentals, i was making the best mix CD's in 2000/2001 off that bytch.

This. Not only did you find any SONG or ALBUM you wanted, but you could easily find INSTRUMENTALS for most songs... And we talmbout actual INSTRUMENTALS, no loops or nothing like that. We ate real fukking good during that era (2001-2002).

 

[Conz]

i remember i made a mix cd for my mom from napster. she wanted some madonna song that was hot at the time. i download all her songs, burn it, and give her the cd. she comes home later flipping out. The madonna mp3 played for like 20 seconds and then just became a high pitched screaming noise. almost caused her to crash.

anyone remember that shyt? when they tried to stop downloading by fukkin with mp3s?

also, i got fukkin banned for downloading a Metallica song. those fakkits. i would actually get that message when i tried to log on "You have been banned by Metallica." So i took the 5 songs I had, changed the name to like "Medalica" and never had another problem. fakkit ass Lars Ulrich.

 

[yoyoyo1]

I see winmx, kazaa, morpheus name dropped in here

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

i remember i made a mix cd for my mom from napster. she wanted some madonna song that was hot at the time. i download all her songs, burn it, and give her the cd. she comes home later flipping out. The madonna mp3 played for like 20 seconds and then just became a high pitched screaming noise. almost caused her to crash.

anyone remember that shyt? when they tried to stop downloading by fukkin with mp3s?

Ya Napster, and p2p in general got unbearable towards the end. That shyt was annoying.


Napster was amazing from an incremental standpoint, but today, I can download an artist's discography in the time it would take me to get a single song on Napster....I prefer the present. The best time was a few years ago before they ramped up their anti piracy efforts.

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

My greatest napster moment was in 2000. I had optimum broadband my people's was in my crib burning piff and playing playstation. We was downloading random obscure songs that came off the top of our heads.. For whatever reason we started talking about Tom and Jerry. We was high as shyt. My boy was like "remember that episode where Tom was acting like he was a jazz player and was singing that song 'is u is or is u aint my baby'?". We was laughing like yea we remember. Then I was like let's look it up on napster. No lie like 200 results came up. We was like . That was the defining Internet moment for me, where it finally dawned that I had the world in my fingertips.

 

[Lakers Offseason]

You were doing it wrong. I'm not talking about the days where Napster was under attack and the RIAA was planting fake songs, people had to name songs obscure shyt to get around the filters and going to virus infested Kazaa. I'm talking when you could go to Napster and take what you wanted. It was a warehouse of infinite music. With great speeds too and no need to install downloaders and toolbars

Breh, the internet is still a warehouse of infinite free music

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

amatuers used napster
the real bootleggers used mirc

nikka fukk mirc. Remember bottler? That was that GUI that made it easy to download shyt from irc. I was eating like colonel sanders in them days breh.

 

[biggaveli31]

i had this porn that looked like brit when she was first getting hot

i was

i had that same one 2 breh

 

[Whitty Hutton]

Finding all those unreleased Nas and 2Pac songs for the first time was just
I got all types of instrumentals off Napster and Audiogalaxy that I cant find to this day. Been looking for the Ghostface Flowers OG beat for a week and the internet been looking at me like
10-12 years ago all I had to do was type it in and there were 20 different files

 

[Pedro Negro]

R.I.P. that blue kitty with the headphones.

 

[Brown_Pride]

there's been nothing like it since. Close but not like it was during the hey day when shyt was free and virus free. Even places like p.B. don't come close to the amount of shyt you could find back then. I remember when i first got to college and got true broad band i'd have a cue 50 - 60 songs deep.

Even after the viruses came out there were precautions you could take. It wasn't until things got all legal that it got bad.

LOL @ buying a CD anymore...THE ONLY time i do that now is when it's an up and coming artist or an underground group. Other than that...fuk'em.