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mcorcoran80 (2008-11-24)

seedz plz!

fritzmendoza (2008-11-25)

let's see some seeding, yea?

rog138 (2008-11-26)

baby, i'mma seed on your face

betamaxDK (2008-11-26)

Amazing work, great upload. Thx a lot.

pizdat (2008-11-29)

Bit Rate??

pion314 (2008-12-04)

The bitrate appears to be 192k for all tracks. Not sure if any are transcodes.

rang2agauche (2008-12-05)

WOW! What a job! Thanks a lot! You make my day!
Great quality!
Is anyone can up or know a place/link where I can find this stuff too (@ a great quality too, of course):







Thanks in advance!
... with a promise to be a good seed! ;)

rang2agauche (2008-12-05)

Ok! For those interested, I find the 80s one:

rang2agauche (2008-12-05)

The 90s @ mininova! Can't paste the link, don't know why...

rang2agauche (2008-12-05)

70s here:

 fuckthesystem1 (2008-12-27)

you're the man!! thank you so much for compiling this.

Psykez777 (2008-12-29)

if anyone wants a more organized file with these songs and better tags, im going to put one in a couple of days...GOOD BOOK, not perfect or anything but good for those that like all types of music.

Psykez777 (2008-12-29)

Psykez777 (2008-12-29)

sorry wrong site, im new at this:
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4607433

Psykez777 (2008-12-29)

i have also been looking for the pitchfork 2000-2004 top 100 albums for months now. if someone can post a torrent to it that would be great.

lidofido (2008-12-30)

While the majority of these tracks are good quality, keep in mind that it sounds like a few of them have been transcoded from lower bitrates. Kind of jarring when you're listening to some decent 192kbps tracks and then you run into the Crash track by The Primitives which sounds terrible.
Appreciate the effort, but if you can't find higher quality MP3s, just leave them as is - don't transcode to something higher to try and cover up the fact. That way we can fill in the gaps ourselves.

pavemental (2009-01-11)

Great upload (all 500 songs present!) but if you're supper fussy about your mp3s be warned: most are lacking artwork or have incorrect artwork, many errors in the years, plus the comments noted above (mostly 192, some possible transcodes).

joelabram (2009-02-02)

sow the seeds of discontent

blaeks (2014-03-26)

great torrent, not perfect sound (192kbps) but cool.
I will share this for a couple months now.