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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 01:43:32 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

   Eeew. My 00s goth collection includes an unacceptable number of 128 kpbs MP3s.

   While I appreciate AudioGalaxy for introducing me to so much stuff, we were absolute barbarians back them.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 01:47:05 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     And I'm going to need someone to explain to the Cruxshadows about the merits of selling actual downloadable music online.

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     Gareth Halfacree (ghalfacree@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 01:47:42 JST Gareth Halfacree

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     @HauntedOwlbear Remember AllOfMP3? Dodgy Russian site where you could buy, I'm sure totally legitimate, MP3s... but you paid by the kilobyte, and could choose the bitrate accordingly.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 01:47:42 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Gareth Halfacree

     @ghalfacree No! I have at least mp3.com free promo CD, packed full of low-bitrate choons, though!

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 01:49:28 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Anjune

     @anjune oh my fucking gods, that is a tragedy

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     Anjune (anjune@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 01:49:29 JST Anjune

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     @HauntedOwlbear My favourite band had a really cool bit that they only played live and that I only had as a bootleg .ra file :/

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 01:54:56 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     Oh, here we go, that entire V:TM tie-in album they had a track on. I didn't know this was called "Deception" for the longest time. Decent track, amazing violin line on the chorus, great break.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vympzV240mM

     A lot of the versions of this album on YT are also very audibly low bitrate for some reason, but I think this is as good as it's getting. It's an absolute trove of Darkwave Of A Certain Era.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 01:57:30 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     Also, bonus points to everyone who actually dressed like the cover illustration in 2000.

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     Chris Cunningham (chriscunningham@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 01:58:16 JST Chris Cunningham

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     @HauntedOwlbear one of the wildest things I had recently was that I was listening to Ministry for the first time in years and I'd completely forgotten that The Ministry Vocals Effect is exactly the same as a terribly compressed Xing codec artifact

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 01:58:16 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Chris Cunningham

     @chriscunningham Oh gods, you're entirely right though! (I went on a listening binge through Ministry's anti-ecocide tracks last week.)

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 01:59:45 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Histrion

     @histrion For the longest time, I still hooked up a cassette recorder to my sound card's output!

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     Histrion (histrion@ludosphere.fr)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 01:59:47 JST Histrion

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     @HauntedOwlbear well I remember the times when I wanted to share a song with someone, and the question was: will it fit on a floppy disk? A time when we also had huge 300x600px pictures.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 02:04:34 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     Every single guitar on this album is SO CRUNCHY.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 03:41:24 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Lunar 🛸 ♾

     @lunarloony that is incredibly dark

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     Lunar 🛸 ♾ (lunarloony@dosgame.club)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 03:41:26 JST Lunar 🛸 ♾

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     @HauntedOwlbear In 2011, in an effort to save drive space on my MP3 player, I encoded all my music as 45kbps Vorbis files. Desperate times.