
Journal Com2Kid's Journal: Why I really miss MP3.com 6
It wasn't because of the pirated music storage, hell, when MP3.com was in business I didn't own a single pirated mp3, and all of your shmucks who just used the site to store pirated copies of your RIAA approved craped out wanna be music should be ashamed of yourselves.
I miss the site because it was a central meeting place for many different types independent music.
You know how hard it is to find Midieval Music now? (about the only genre I could stand for years and years). Insanely hard, rare as heck, mp3.com represented a single place to get all you could ever need. Entire companies were founded because mp3.com provided a place to for customers to get information about music, which they could then purchase from vendors. (yes yes yes mp3.com was SUPPOSED to be the vendor, but you see the CDs you purchased from the site where just burned copies of the 128kbit streams that were available for download This was momentously stupid, mp3.com should have kept the original
Any ways, mp3.com recognized nearly EVERY single possible genre of music. When I first came to the site the Medieval music section was bare with very few submissions (I do believe I went through the whole of them in a night or two), but over the years it prospered and grew, as more and more bands found out that they indeed did have a place to exist, at mp3.com.
Then, thumbing his nose at this huge community founded around all these different musical genres, the president of the site went and offered users the ability to upload their RIAA crap to the site.
Because, apparently, you know, independent music isn't REAL music, oh noooo, you just HAD to have RIAA crud illegally flooding the site.
Freaking genius idea there arse hole. Thanks for spoiling something good cuz you didn't have faith in your own artists. Fucktard.
Edit: And for something a bit more recent;
Lomov really kicks ass.
I miss it, too. (Score:1)
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mp3.com was not easy to find stuff on (finding a single good artist could mean four or five hours of searching through genre listings, and even then you had to do it every few months as new artists could appear at any time), but at least it was there.
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That and having the domain name "mp3.com" kind of helps. (how I found it, I was wondering what these MP3 things were so. . . .
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That's ok. We don't use names around here anymore. You can just call him "that mp3.com guy".