One microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan

[triadruid]

Almost completed the Great Music Acquisition Project of 2008. A few more CDs to rip and then I'll finally be able to make mine for the CD Swap project initiated by featherynscale.

A few pieces were remarkably difficult to find through online filesharing, though:

• Guns 'n' Roses, selected discography (stalled for a week at 93% for some reason, can probably find another version)
  
• Child's Play's Rat Race is only available on a private torrent, which I can't seem to get to.
  
• Testament's Souls of Black is not available at all for some reason... (I didn't think it was that bad)
  
• A collection titled "Best of Scorpions" is similarly unavailable, and trying to re-create it from other albums has been difficult, to say the least. This is a WEIRD collection of old Scorpions, like "Dark Lady", "Hell Cat", and "Steamrock Fever". May need to search again on this one...
  
• KISS, "Double Platinum" - stalled? No results? What the hell?!?

On the other hand, Amazon's MP3 downloading store is likely to be very useful, and means I don't have to join the Cult of iTunes... and their store works with Linux, if not Windows 2000, perversely. I just have to find a portable audio player that accepts Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and .FLAC (that was a new one on me, and I can probably convert them if need be).

Comments

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Heh. I found The Ritual without any trouble, this other one is just giving me trouble for some reason.... course, I haven't listened to it much, either.

[celtic-elk.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Couldn't get you to burn me an audio copy of The Ritual, could I? =)