Monday, June 29  Torrents Are No Fun  Maybe I'm old fashioned,
but I don't see the appeal in downloading anything "forbidden"
for free. I did use Napster back when it wasn't a big corporate
entity, but even then I'd primarily search for rare b-sides or
live tracks. Downloading whole albums was no fun and what's the
deal with movies?  Sure, you'll find a bunch of rare flicks, but
it sucks the fun out of digging and searching, sometimes for
years, for a real copy. That and digital copies on hard drives
are worthless with wildly wavering quality. This especially
holds true for recent releases. Nothing like watching a low
quality, heavily compressed video on a monitor through shit
speakers. I'd rather buy old VHS dups from establishments like
Video Search of Miami from back when the Internet was in its
infancy than do it the easy digital way. There's nothing like
finally uncovering that "holy grail" either by a fluke on an
e-tailer or in a dingy cardboard box at a yard sale.  So no,
don't ask me for torrent links