Skills McPlenty

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Member Since: 5/31/2002
Total Mixes: 37
Total Feedback: 195

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Elegy for Audiogalaxy

Artist Song
Yusuf Islam  A is for Allah 
Wagonchrist  Bend Over 
Francois K  African Drug 
Morplay  Check Your Pulse 
Sun Ra  Drop Me Off In Harlem 
Tortoise  Eros 
Stephen Vitiello  9 Out of 10 
Art Ensemble of Chicago  Malachi 
Dandy Livingstone  Rudy A Message to You 
Tom Waits  The Piano Has Been Drinking 
The Ethiopians  Train to Skaville 
Zimba Ku  Black Heat 

Comment:

I picked up a Mac client for the Audiogalaxy network only a few weeks ago. Loved how you could find obscurities unavailable on most P2Ps. Among my recent highlights: Afrika Bambaataa live tapes from early 80s, out of print EPs like Liquid Liquid, and finding on the cusp talents like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Adult.

Now its gone, or at least the songs are, due to a settlement with the RIAA .

These are my last 12 downloads. A is for Allah may well be the funniest thing I've gotten off the Internet, a devout Cat Stevens after he went crazy. There's also a couple good jazz tunes I know I wouldn't have been able to get elsewhere.

What were your last few downloads before it all ended?

Feedback:

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DanWise
Date: 6/18/2002
nice one. audiogalaxy was a beautiful thing.
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Steele
Date: 6/18/2002
nice mix. audiogalaxy was indeed a beautiful thing. most of what you see on my most recent mixes are my last downloads. the butchies, team dresch, stereo total, etc.
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Moe
Date: 6/18/2002
Nice. This is the first I've heard of Audiogalaxy's demise. I was never able to use their site, but I knew it had almost every song under the sun.
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faerieem
Date: 6/18/2002
you don't see stephen vitiello every day.

very nice.
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Matt Carpenter
Date: 6/18/2002
I did two Stevie Wonder mixes before it went down. I know about finding hard to find stuff, check out my Inkubus Sukkubus and Ijahman Levi mixes.
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lo-fi jr.
Date: 6/18/2002
Sad indeed. I was midway through downloading a Gore Gore Girls track, then it was all over.
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J!!1
Date: 6/19/2002
It was as good as gone to me a few weeks ago when they updated their download satellite that makes it impossible to aviod gator. I just can't abide by such nasty, nasty spyware.

Still a bummer tho... But take heart. Something better will always come along and fill in the vaccuum...
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teapin
Date: 6/19/2002
yep, it was a sad sad day. too late to stop filesharing, though, so i'm optimistic that the next evolution will be just as good or better. information wants to be free! etc etc.
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teapin
Date: 6/19/2002
nice mix, btw.
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Jacob Sharp
Date: 6/19/2002
i was in the process of getting the 3 out of print uncle tupelo albums. :(