Like Smashing Pumpkins? Here's "Machina II/The Friends & Enemies Of Modern Music" in its entirety.

[Fausto]

A whole album for free.....and it's not even pirated (Billy Corgan released it himself). How novel.

Have fun.

A mirror.

Another (.ram)

Another

another

Another

Another

and yet another mirror.

 

[Flashram]

Cool!

 

[yellowperil]

Was it Corgan's idea not to release this album? Sounds like the tracks never made it to a mastering studio.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: yellowperil
Was it Corgan's idea not to release this album? Sounds like the tracks never made it to a mastering studio.

Virgin had basically told the band that they weren't interested in lending much support to the album, so Corgan printed up 25 copies on his own record label and gave them out (knowing they would make the rounds as a free download) as a final "f*ck you" to the label.

AFAIK, our local radio station got one of the 25 copies so it should be decent quality (or at least as good as the original). What's the bitrate showing up as? I'm at work and stupid websense blocks me from accessing .mp3s so I haven't listened to any of this stuff yet.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Rats, I'll have to wait till I get home. :frown: Thanks for the link.

 

[Pepsi90919]

uh, buddy, you're a bit late. the first time someone gave out that link was like a couple years ago.

edit: mine are dated september 18, 2000.

 

[murphy55d]

Both the mirrors are getting hammered anyway...

EDIT: NM, the first mirror is fine.

 

[yellowperil]

Showing up as 192kbps for me. The MP3 quality is fine, and it sounds professionally recorded/mixed. However it's lacking some definition and sounding kind of muddy, I'm guessing b/c they didn't take it to a mastering studio to get it EQ'd/compressed/limited. The songs themselves are great though.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
uh, buddy, you're a bit late. the first time someone gave out that link was like a couple years ago.

Thanks. I knew that. Just thought some of our members might not have known about it since it wasn't made much of in the press. Here's a cookie for being so vigilant tho.

 

[Pepsi90919]

k

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
uh, buddy, you're a bit late. the first time someone gave out that link was like a couple years ago.

edit: mine are dated september 18, 2000.

Who cares?

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
k

 

[Fausto]

added a bunch of mirror sites.

 

[murphy55d]

Yeah... I'm glad Fausto posted this. I had no idea it was out.

Thanks man.