• BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Napster launched in June 1999. It shut down in July 2001. It was a short run but I don’t think a lot of young people were spending $10 on an album.

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      8 months ago

      This isn’t wrong - I was there using Napster, and I was one of the lucky ones with a Mac so my computer was immune to most viruses.

      What was the other one that was really good… its symbol was a satellite… Found it: Audiogalaxy.

      And, for the longest time, it was also Limewire… lol…

      But yeah, I still did buy CDs because I also felt like it was a lot more common to not be able to find stuff you wanted…

      Or, the funniest thing ever: downloading “Sex Pistols” but it’s just a Billy Idol song. IDK why that would happen but it did.