Mar 13, 2013. BitTorrent trackers such as bt.etree.org, Dime, and The Trader's Den have become the go-to sites for free downloads of new and vintage recordings. The sites' rules vary, but most of them generally respect the wishes of artists when it comes to what is and isn't kosher: Commercially released tracks from any. They weren't the first band to jam when performing live, but The Grateful Dead epitomized this type of free-form music. They also allowed their. On their website. S website, you can download both live tracks and videos of the band. You can even listen to their live music on an Internet radio station.

On, the Grateful Dead played the in Passaic, New Jersey, kicking off the first set with a great run of “Help on the Way,” “Slipknot!” “Franklin’s Tower,” and “The Music Never Stopped” before launching into a spirited version of “Brown-Eyed Women.” I know the show well, but not because I was there. I was on the other side of the country that night—not to mention being just 2 years old and change. Grant Gouldon via Flickr A ticket stub (not mine) from June 19, 1976. I know it because I’ve listened to a recording of the show many times. Fans recorded it during its live broadcast on WOUR Utica and WNEW New York, and a soundboard recording is also in circulation. This performance and thousands of other concerts by a multitude of artists are part of my collection of live music, amassed in various formats over the past 20 years—and aided by a changing trading scene that has gone both digital and online.

Behind the music I love live music—there’s just something wonderful about hearing a band as they were on a particular date, warts and all, including the stage banter, flubs, and musical selection. Although I enjoy going to concerts (and have been to a large number of them), the boundaries of proximity and time allow for only so many, not to mention all the great music that was performed before I was even born.

So in addition to collecting as many of the shows I've attended as possible, I also love listening to other slices of musical history. When I stumbled on live-music trading in the early 1990s, tracking down shows was challenging and trading was tedious. You’d set up snail-mail trades of equal numbers of cassette tapes, put them in padded envelopes, and bring them over to the post office to ship them along their merry way across the country (and in some cases, around the world).

Cassettes slowly gave way to CDs and DATs. At one point, a move prompted me to give away the bulk of my hundreds of cassettes. Download Plants Vs Zombies 2 Free Rar.

I kept a few that I just couldn’t bear to part with, including my friend’s stealth recording of a Black Francis (aka Frank Black) show we saw together at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica on March 22, 1991. For lots of people, trades waned relatively quickly when downloads became feasible. It started with terribly inefficient means such as IRC channels and or FTP servers with a restricted number of logins. When BitTorrent arrived on the scene, downloads exploded.

With the rise of distributed downloading and increased bandwidth, lossless audio files became the law of the land—first (Shorten) and then (Free Lossless Audio Codec), with the odd (Monkey’s Audio) file thrown in. (Lossless audio reduces the size of an uncompressed AIFF or WAV file by 40 to 60 percent without tossing out any information.) A BitTorrent download on etree.org. BitTorrent trackers such as,, and have become the go-to sites for free downloads of new and vintage recordings. The sites’ rules vary, but most of them generally respect the wishes of artists when it comes to what is and isn’t kosher: Commercially released tracks from any performance they host are a no-no on Dime, for example. And certain bands, such as the Allman Brothers Band, are cool with people trading CDs of their shows, but explicitly disallow posting them online for download. BTW, the ROIOs exist, you can’t make them vanish. So, why not let your fans get them for free from one another instead of having to purchase them from commercial bootleggers on auction sites?

Many shows available for torrenting—especially on Dime and The Trader’s Den—are known as ROIOs, or Recordings of Indeterminate (or sometimes Independent) Origin. You know, bootlegs. But that term more specifically refers to an unauthorized recording.

The idea behind sites such as these is that nobody is profiting from the work of others; people share recordings with a community of like-minded fans (and sometimes the truly fanatical) with the understanding that they are never to be bought or sold. Minitab 17 Product Key Keygen Free. In fact, the disclaimer at the bottom of the Dime homepage reads, in part, “BTW, the ROIOs exist, you can’t make them vanish.

So, why not let your fans get them for free from one another instead of having to purchase them from commercial bootleggers on auction sites?” The legality of these recordings is varied and complex. Many bands, including the Grateful Dead, are known as taping-friendly and happily encourage fans to swap recordings. Other performers explicitly prohibit the practice. Then there’s the large gray area in the middle, where bands tacitly allow taping and trading. And in the past few years, bands themselves have gotten in on the fun by releasing official live recordings (more on that shortly).