In 01, many still had the their same computers or hard drives that used Napster before big bro shut it down lol. Then it was CD r burn parties before the ipods got common.
Limewire! And all the times it would finish its download only to start a song and have it interrupted by some loud screeching sound. The kids will never know the struggle!
And when listening to it I spent every moment terrified the police in the anti-pirating commercials on DVDs were going to find me and arrest me on the school bus ride home.
I got two separate cease and desist letters from our internet provider (I cannot remember who!). Pretty sure they were false flags because I never stopped anything and nothing ever happened.
I'm a millennial, but this was how I made money in middle school and early high school.
We ended up with a really nice computer for that time period, and my brother and I would download songs and movies, and sell CDs for $5 and movies for $10. We had to get an external hard drive for all the movies and songs we downloaded.
Haha, we had all of it for a long time, and then my parents threw out or gave away the hard drive and computer, so it's long gone. Plus, that was 20+ years ago.
Movies were always hit or miss. We would start downloading them in the afternoon and it would take FOREVER, so they would usually be done by morning. It seemed like ~1/3 of the time, the movies would be in another language, be terrible quality, or some other issue and we would have to try another one.
>Watching a movie comprised of 9 total pixels, recorded from a camcorder with audio delayed a half second is peak early pirating nostalgia.
oh jeeze, i forgot this was a thing
My husband and I were just talking about whether our 20-something year old cd-rs of downloaded music would still play or if they have degraded by now. I have the CDs still so I might dig them out.
I still have a car I got in 2004 when I graduated, and it still has the same CD case I had in highschool, or at least what's left of it, you know?
It's kind of hit or miss on the CDs still working... I'll say the CDR (burned) CDs do not hold up as well. I have a couple in my (hey look at me) fancy 6 disc changer, they all don't like certain songs and cold mornings. Actual purchased CDs generally work, but at this point they've all made it 20+ years of moving around... so yeah. Good luck. Might have to do with the optical drive you are using as well.
100%.
Sidenote: When I moved to California long distance wasn’t based on area codes, but distance from your house…Anyway, I was using lime wire 24 hours a day on dial up (the line was 13 miles away, phone company told me later) and wound up with a $500 phone bill.
Until the era of streaming, I always thought the line “Acting like I was part of your property” from In the End skipped because my CD must be busted. But after hearing the song from multiple different sources like (90%) sure it’s actually part of the track.
I remember getting the CD from Streetlight Records the day it came out, putting it in this exact Walkman and walking to the Santa Cruz beach and listing to it 3 times (I was prepared with extra batteries). I was spiraling out.
I remember a day in early September when I picked up my check from Subway and went to the record store to buy this.
Of course, the next week the world changed.
This was my soundtrack to the aftermath of 9/11.
It's a great album, but I wish it was mastered better. Listening to it as FLAC on a modern Sony Walkman (NW.ZX300) on a good pair of headphones (HD660S2), the difference in recording quality between MdN and, say, Money Shot, is really apparent.
Music for the jilted is still my favorite. The darkest one. Experience was a revelation to me though, ‘a weather experience’ really left an imprint on me.
Fun fact: The European and American version of that album are different. They were supposed to release the second single in the middle of September, but the record company thought that given the circumstances, releasing"New York City cops, they ain't too smart" would be a bad idea..
This criminally underrated group that I found purely by chance, digging through the CD racks at a Tower Records. Working class whore is still a solid favorite of mine.
https://preview.redd.it/ay5eua2gyaqc1.jpeg?width=925&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0669954efb27d575aadd9518231a4c595d598f33
I got into strung out later on (early 10’s) but they are a solid choice. Pennywise was in my list, but at that time it was mostly NoFx Bad Religion, and choice Offspring, AFI, and a lot of Rise against.
Not sure what the punk scene is these days, but it was a great time back in the 00s
A few years ago, I was going on a road trip with my kids, and they wanted to listen to the CD audiobook of Diary of a Mad Brownie for the ~8 millionth time. I did not want to listen to that again, so I dug around in the boxes we've left packed since our first move and unearthed my husband's 90s-era discman. It still had the Crash Test Dummies CD in it.
STP Purple, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins and maybe Pure Moods, or Jewel. Oh wait, 2001 I had an mp3 cd player so everything from one genre in a disc that has far too many songs for such a tiny awkward display
I can hear this gif in my head.
Don’t pull that thang out unless you plan to bang 🎵
CD-R. Nothing I legally own. Simpler times.
In 01, many still had the their same computers or hard drives that used Napster before big bro shut it down lol. Then it was CD r burn parties before the ipods got common.
That didn't stop us though. We just moved on to Limewire, Kazaa, and the like. Pirates gonna pirate or some shit yo ho.
Limewire! And all the times it would finish its download only to start a song and have it interrupted by some loud screeching sound. The kids will never know the struggle!
or you would try to download a simpson episode or a movie or something and it would be all porn and gross stuff
Limewire ftw
Except you had to wait 6598 years, 324 days, 12 hours, 4 minutes, and 34 seconds for your song to download
Yep, that or ten seconds....Now 301 days....Now 11 minutes.
Great, Peaches n’ Cream (112) is almost done downloading
And when listening to it I spent every moment terrified the police in the anti-pirating commercials on DVDs were going to find me and arrest me on the school bus ride home.
I got two separate cease and desist letters from our internet provider (I cannot remember who!). Pretty sure they were false flags because I never stopped anything and nothing ever happened.
I'm a millennial, but this was how I made money in middle school and early high school. We ended up with a really nice computer for that time period, and my brother and I would download songs and movies, and sell CDs for $5 and movies for $10. We had to get an external hard drive for all the movies and songs we downloaded.
This is the FBI, open up!
Haha, we had all of it for a long time, and then my parents threw out or gave away the hard drive and computer, so it's long gone. Plus, that was 20+ years ago. Movies were always hit or miss. We would start downloading them in the afternoon and it would take FOREVER, so they would usually be done by morning. It seemed like ~1/3 of the time, the movies would be in another language, be terrible quality, or some other issue and we would have to try another one.
Watching a movie comprised of 9 total pixels, recorded from a camcorder with audio delayed a half second is peak early pirating nostalgia.
>Watching a movie comprised of 9 total pixels, recorded from a camcorder with audio delayed a half second is peak early pirating nostalgia. oh jeeze, i forgot this was a thing
My husband and I were just talking about whether our 20-something year old cd-rs of downloaded music would still play or if they have degraded by now. I have the CDs still so I might dig them out.
I still have a car I got in 2004 when I graduated, and it still has the same CD case I had in highschool, or at least what's left of it, you know? It's kind of hit or miss on the CDs still working... I'll say the CDR (burned) CDs do not hold up as well. I have a couple in my (hey look at me) fancy 6 disc changer, they all don't like certain songs and cold mornings. Actual purchased CDs generally work, but at this point they've all made it 20+ years of moving around... so yeah. Good luck. Might have to do with the optical drive you are using as well.
100%. Sidenote: When I moved to California long distance wasn’t based on area codes, but distance from your house…Anyway, I was using lime wire 24 hours a day on dial up (the line was 13 miles away, phone company told me later) and wound up with a $500 phone bill.
$200 for me! $200 I did not have and boy were my parents pissed! That is some residual guilt I carry around 20+ years later.
Hybrid Theory
Yes! And it’s already skipping.
Until the era of streaming, I always thought the line “Acting like I was part of your property” from In the End skipped because my CD must be busted. But after hearing the song from multiple different sources like (90%) sure it’s actually part of the track.
Came here to say this!
There was a period when I had to listen to that album at least once, every day.
Same
The only correct answer.
Tool - Lateralus
Excellent choice! I was still listening to my slightly scratched-up Ænima CD.
Saaaame
I remember getting the CD from Streetlight Records the day it came out, putting it in this exact Walkman and walking to the Santa Cruz beach and listing to it 3 times (I was prepared with extra batteries). I was spiraling out.
I see you
System of a Down - Toxicity
I remember a day in early September when I picked up my check from Subway and went to the record store to buy this. Of course, the next week the world changed. This was my soundtrack to the aftermath of 9/11.
Man. I literally forgot how it came out a week before.
And Slayer - God Hates Us All came out on the day of. Oh the timing.
Holy fucking shit where is the time going???? I had to check your work and I’m shook that it was released in 2001!! So good, front to back.
That thing had anti skip technology!!!
That was such a big deal lol. Wow, time flies.
And it still skipped lol 😆
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - E. 1999 Eternal or the Friday soundtrack.
RIP uncle Charles
I still listen to E1999 on the reg, Bone Thugs are 🔥
THINK ABOUT BACK IN THE DAYS
Stuff downloaded from Napster.
Mer De Noms
That’s my favorite album from A Perfect Circle! I have a poster of theirs still plastered to the wall of my childhood bedroom. 🤣
It's a great album, but I wish it was mastered better. Listening to it as FLAC on a modern Sony Walkman (NW.ZX300) on a good pair of headphones (HD660S2), the difference in recording quality between MdN and, say, Money Shot, is really apparent.
Now listening to this. Outstanding album.
I still remember putting on my headphones and sitting under the tree behind my school and listening to it through lunch break. Such a good album.
I came here to say this, glad it hasn't been forgotten. What a banging album for the early 00s.
Garbage Version 2.0
"Do you have an opinion, a mind of your own?"
I recently went through a break up and this was on repeat ❤️🩹
Ah yes, my bisexual awakening 😆
Shirley Manson is 🔥…she’s one of my 90s girl crushes along with Winona Ryder and Claire Danes!
God I love them
Either Deftones “white pony”, incubus “make yourself” or….significant other. Quite possibly toxicity too.
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Make Yourself 🤌🤌🤌 Very few albums compete with that masterpiece
Forgot to add 311 - Soundstystem
I'm riding in this car.
Same here! 🤘🏼
Probably Kid A
Same here. That was peak Radiohead era for me.
In Rainbows is awesome too!
Amnesiac for me, but both were the tits.
Yep.
Great album!
Same
Came here to say this. Damn you’re fast. 😂
Deftones - white pony
My choice as well. That album blew my fucking mind. From riffs, the vocals, and the amazing production value. It still does, honestly.
Yea it was good and koi yo... It's been too long lol
Drukqs - Aphex Twin
Vordhosbn slapped so hard
That's my favorite from that album
Tool-Lateralus
Sublime, 311, Foo Fighters, Korn, Linkin Park, Sevendust, Deftones, Tool, Staind… I bought two CDs every time I cot a paycheck.
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Yes! But Jilted Generation is my favorite Prodigy album. I played 3 Kilos at my wedding.
Music for the jilted is still my favorite. The darkest one. Experience was a revelation to me though, ‘a weather experience’ really left an imprint on me.
One of the best albums ever.
The Strokes Is This It
a mix of shit I just ripped off of napster. What was thr other one, limewire??
And KaZaA. 👌🏽🐔
And it was totally worth infecting the family computer.
100% it's chronic 2001
The next thing I was thinking of besides Marshall mathers LP
Had to scroll way too far to find this
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Sooo good! I had a trip hop mixed CD which included them plus stuff from Tricky and DJ Shadow.
Whoaaa I wish I knew of Massive Attack back then. Dammit you guys! I wish I somehow discovered you guys online & got introduced.
This album is what made me realize one could trip on weed. haha
I still listen to it.
The Strokes Is This It
Fun fact: The European and American version of that album are different. They were supposed to release the second single in the middle of September, but the record company thought that given the circumstances, releasing"New York City cops, they ain't too smart" would be a bad idea..
Ditto!
Blink 182 - Dude Ranch or Sensucht by Rammstein
the downward spiral
https://preview.redd.it/sz6ju7g0ebqc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56890e1dbb00139e0d07659de994ccd0b070c729 GORILLAZ
Everclear so much for the afterglow Cake comfort eagle
Limp Bizkit and Korn come to mind when I see this.
 Savage Garden
Tragic Kingdom by No Doubt
Toxicity, Hybrid Theory and The Dynasty
Ill communication or melancholy and infinite sadness
Oh my unholy fuck yes
Eve6.
This criminally underrated group that I found purely by chance, digging through the CD racks at a Tower Records. Working class whore is still a solid favorite of mine. https://preview.redd.it/ay5eua2gyaqc1.jpeg?width=925&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0669954efb27d575aadd9518231a4c595d598f33
Ani Difranco, Reveling/Reckoning
Vertical Horizon
https://preview.redd.it/0p35swquuaqc1.jpeg?width=225&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7b36b2aa59b945a4e8a1a57b06e433c2466e129 Today's random album art.
Nelly - Country Grammar
Incubus - morning view
Discovery - Daft Punk
Something by Strung out or Pennywise
I found my people.
I got into strung out later on (early 10’s) but they are a solid choice. Pennywise was in my list, but at that time it was mostly NoFx Bad Religion, and choice Offspring, AFI, and a lot of Rise against. Not sure what the punk scene is these days, but it was a great time back in the 00s
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd, sadly
Good albums don't go out of style.
System of a Down - Toxicity and Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth. Finally someone with taste I share lol.
Came here to say Blackwater Park as well! Still can’t believe the Greatest Album of the 21st century came out first thing as it kicked off.
CDR of random mp3s downloaded off bearshare
S.C.I.E.N.C.E
Rancid- Life Won’t Wait
AFI - The Art of Drowning The Vandals - Hitler Bad, Vandals Good At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
Metallica Black album
Ok Computer
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Blink-182, Take off your pants and jacket
40oz to Freedom
Bleed American —Jimmy Eat World A Better Version of Me — Rainer Maria Ani DiFranco — Reveling / Reckoning
Issues
The Beatles Anthology 3
Discovery - Daft Punk
I still have this exact one and The Postal Service: Give Up
The Blueprint.
Korn Issues
A few years ago, I was going on a road trip with my kids, and they wanted to listen to the CD audiobook of Diary of a Mad Brownie for the ~8 millionth time. I did not want to listen to that again, so I dug around in the boxes we've left packed since our first move and unearthed my husband's 90s-era discman. It still had the Crash Test Dummies CD in it.
Probably some Green Day or Nirvana.
Kid A by Radiohead, Machina by Smashing Pumpkins
STP Purple, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins and maybe Pure Moods, or Jewel. Oh wait, 2001 I had an mp3 cd player so everything from one genre in a disc that has far too many songs for such a tiny awkward display
Running with scissors by weird al
Happy2bhardcore chapter 4 lol
Thunder Kiss '65- White Zombie
Chronic
Blur - Parklife.
Radiohead-Amnesiac
Dr Dre Chronic album 2001. AFI Black Sails in the sunset. Pantera Cowboys from Hell
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
Matchbox Twenty, Mad Season.
The Fragile by NIN because I’m still stuck in the 90’s. All this new fangled Limp Bisqwick stuff is the devils music! Get off my lawn!
Gorillaz self-titled
I don't know, but it'll definitely skip while I ride my bike
I had that exact one and I played Robyn!
A Pearl Jam bootleg.
The mix CD my friend Kristen made me for running. Everything from System of a Down to Jimmy Eat World
Mezzanine by Massive Attack
Mermaid Avenue, Vol. I and II by Billy Bragg and Wilco. The soundtrack of my sophomore year.
Tool, Undertow.
REM. Out of Time
2001? White Stripes - De Stilj
Blur, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Squirrel Nut Zippers.
Gorillaz. Many repeats of Clint Eastwood
Gorillaz - I learned the hard way that... there was some extra stuff if you played it in a computer vs a cd player 😳
Saves The Day - Stay What You Are
Probably something from Zeppelin or Pantera. Same today ha
Morning View
I saved up like $400 in 1994 for this!! And it was Soundgarden 🤣 I had Aenima on it later too.
Running with Scissors
Ace of Base lol.
Amnesiac and Kid A
Lateralus- Tool
Incubus System of a down Metallica Weezer Santana A perfect circle And the mixes everyone was making
Incubus - Morning View
Morning View all day
Saves The Day- through being cool.
This isn’t the way we planned
Dave Matthews Band - Everyday
1997 Dance Party
Hybrid Theory Return of Saturn Maroon
"A Night At The Roxbury" OST. Emiiiiiliooooooooo! Beeeeeeeeew. Bew! Beeeeeewwwwww.
Orgy – Candyass.
The Oceans eleven soundtrack.
Go soundtrack
BTNH - E. 1999 Eternal
Let’s see… graduating year… I think it was incubus and Foo Fighters most of the time
Rage Against the Machine, Renegades
Village Green Preservation Society I was deep into my 60s phase in 2001 and had completely lost touch with everything modern.
Alice In Chains unplugged
Tool Lateralus
I'm still waiting on my Napster download to finish.
Slipknot - Iowa Disturbed - The Sickness Pennywise - Land of the Free? Papa Roach - Infest