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crips were in style back then.
i'm a proud euro (if there is such thing lol) and i can confirm you that Napster was huge even in our backwards, outdated regions
LOL at the revisionist history that Napster wasn't huge back in 2000. Dudes, I remember that time because I was around back then. For instance, before this forum was created, we had this little forum that anyone could post to without a user account that had a black and red color scheme. It was the precursor to the DubCC forums. In those days, we were posting about these new songs we were discovering, because we were all basically young and broke high school students back then, and so we used Napster to download individual songs one by one. In fact, I distinctly remember that's how I first listened to Bow Down for example -- I literally had to find the tracklist and download each song on the album one by one...and I'm sure others did as well. Everybody in my high school was talking in the hallways about new music they were listening to because Napster enabled them to do so. That's in fact why there was a bubble in music sales back then, because people were using Napster to discover new music rather than to strictly illegal d.l. and save music.But anyway, people who say Napster wasn't big back then simply weren't around. Maybe it wasn't big in Europe -- I know this forum has a lot of Euros these days, but I'm talking about the United States, Napster was huge.
Napster in its prime still didn't make free music as easily accessible as it is now. Example, if I wanted a snoop album right now all I have to do is go on google and type "snoop dogg doggumentary mediafire" and within a minute I would have a link and withing 5 minutes I'd be extracting the songs to my desktop and burning them onto a disc or adding them to my itunes playlist. Napster was NEVER that simple.
Quote from: Michael Madsen on June 09, 2011, 02:06:46 PMwell, u know - back in the 90's and early 00's, if u wanted to have music - u had to actually go out n buy a physical record n bring it home.it was differnet back then. i actually remember those timesWTF??? Napster was huge back then, circa when Tha Eastsidaz dropped. You did NOT have to go to the store back then.
well, u know - back in the 90's and early 00's, if u wanted to have music - u had to actually go out n buy a physical record n bring it home.it was differnet back then. i actually remember those times
Quote from: GangstaBoogy on June 10, 2011, 01:40:40 PMNapster in its prime still didn't make free music as easily accessible as it is now. Example, if I wanted a snoop album right now all I have to do is go on google and type "snoop dogg doggumentary mediafire" and within a minute I would have a link and withing 5 minutes I'd be extracting the songs to my desktop and burning them onto a disc or adding them to my itunes playlist. Napster was NEVER that simple. of course not. only thing I'm saying was Napster was already huge at the time. when it came to piracy we still relied on audio cassettes and people with cd-recorder (it wasn't that common back then lol)and Dre-day you're spot on, i remember with my 56k internet access, i could only download a song here lol and there while my friends all had faster internet connection lol.