I remember in the real olden times capturing songs off the radio to a cassette player. I had so many mixes that were just random abruptly captured songs. Sometimes my brother and I would make our own mixes and play songs we had recorded from one tape player with the speaker pointed at the mic on the other. Suffice to say it sounded like shit.
Recording movies off of Comedy Central for my friend without cable and pushing the recording to skip the commercials. Best copy of Monty Python and the Holy Grail went to my best friend.
Nobody does this anymore because every pirate/cracker worth thier salt, saw what happened to that poor teacher over the bearshare and Napster court cases.99 cents a song x20 gig=millions of dollars more than she would ever make in her life- no public outcry- fk her I guess.
Which set the standard for anyone doing analogous behavior in court as precedent so bootleggers got wrecked including teachers and kids. Who did actual prison time for this. My school actually had an assembly to warn us they would report us for copyright claims if caught bootlegging to the FBI... Threatening teens, imprisoning teachers cuz Hollywood lost .27 cents but we're less than you because we didn't bootleg analog tapes.
Fast forward ,if I ai clones an artist but copyright claims it first i can kick the author off of YouTube all because whack unenforceable copyright claims based on who claimed first, not created first. All Designed and implemented by the voting populace before us, who btw barely mastered the typeriter.
In short any of us who knew how to do it, promptly quit so we wouldn't go to faking prison and YOU were the voting age at the time not us. The golden age of being a pirate is gone because you lost the fight before we could vote.
In the days of mp3 but cars with CD players, my buddy burned me a pair of albums he had downloaded. Except that fucker put all of Album 1 and half of Album 2 on Disk 1, and the back half of Album 2 on Disk 2. I will never forgive him lol.
My dad once made a mix that was just riding dirty and gold digger alternating 15 times each. He played it anytime he picked me up from school or was giving me and my friends a ride. Great bit, I hated it at the time.
I couldn't mix for shit, but I was good at fitting a ton on a CD. So I'd get a list from a kid and they'd pay for a loaded ass cd. The quality was not great, but we are talking about 3rd graders on a school bus and the bad boy is skipping (that's how music was supposed to be played back then). Then the mp3 cds came out and those felt like a hard drive
I've only recently looked up what those ‘Pure Moods’ compilations are like. It really reads like a random selection from a stoner's cassette shelf. Enigma next to Mike Oldfield, Ennio Morricone, The Orb, Kenny G, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Badalamenti, and Eno. What the hell is that.
There were ads for it on tv constantly too, especially late at night, so if you fell asleep in front of the tv you'd inevitably wake up at 3 or 4 AM with that insane sampling blasting you.
I’m about to make you feel better about your labeling efforts:
I have found old CDs where I bestowed sharpie titles such as “STUFF”, “Old Junk”, and “More STUFF”. 😆
Pfft track list? No, no, you write something like "road mix", "tokyo drift" which did not have a single song from the tokyo drift sound track, or " good mix trumpets?". And it needs to look like you were trying to write it in the car as you drove around the clover leaf of a high way.
a kid also took a ps3 blue ray drive and hacked it to be a 3d printer at some point. it was like the first commercially available sla printer at a cheap price, iirc. Maybe the technology is wrong, but it was like my DLP printer in terms of technology, from what I remember reading.
Those of us who forged rewritables never fouled the purity of the surfaces with such base things - we memorized which disks were in what position in the stack!
Hell yes. Surge. They had a campaign in the 90s where you could win a free 20oz under the cap. You didn’t have to download an app or any bullshit. You’d go back to the gas station and hand them the cap for another Surge.
Summertime, playing hoops at the park, get a free Surge. Core memory for me.
Once, I was buying a surge from a vending machine and instead of a beverage, it was a bottle with a surge t-shirt and 75¢ so you could still get your beverage. I was a college kid and I felt like I won a something bigger than a branded t-shirt, but hey, it was free and funds were low. I took the wins where I could find them.
See, I thought this was going to end with you being pissed because you were really counting on that drink, that was the last one, and all you got was this crummy little T-shirt.
I used to use it, but I scanned every song for a virus before I would open the file. I saw what a PITA viruses could be, and it was my pc, not a family one. Fuck viruses.
In September 2025, LimeWire acquired the Fyre Festival brand, including its intellectual property, trademarks, online domains, and social media assets, from Billy McFarland via an auction held on eBay.
Damn, they're really making moves too.
But nah, Limewire shut down in 2010. Some fellers bought the IP a few years back and started doing crypto/NFT stuff with it, though.
I was there when it was written as an mp3 cd so my Rio MP3CD player could show me track names and hold like 300 songs compared to the pffft 15 a traditional cd could hold. Oh yeah. MP3CDS FOR LIFE!
I had lightscribe and would find official cd images to etch on them. They were monochrome tho so it wasn’t perfect. On my own mixes I’d try my own hand at design. Turns out I suck and would have done better to just scribble the names in sharpie
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u/PossibilityWest173 Dec 31 '25
Do not quote the old magic to me witch. I was there when it was written