There was a pirated copy of “We are the Champions” by Queen circulating LimeWire and Kazaa circa 2003 that’s given a generation of people mental whiplash.

Some hooligan thought it would be funny to splice/cut/edit “of the world” at the end of the song, so it concludes with “We are the champions” (jump cut / obvious splice) “of the wooooorld.”

There’s entire threads out there dedicated to finding that copy of the song because millions of people have heard it, but no one makes the connection between the hostile actors modifying those songs and sharing them on file-sharing applications versus the originals.

There were also numerous garage band covers circulating around also - “Smells like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana was a popular one to hear in extremely low quality with someone banging spoons or something.

Naz remembers.

:)

Hearing a song that you’ve downloaded playing on the radio, surprised it didn’t skip in that one spot

To this day my brain still jams in neutral when I don’t hear a skip at the end of Guerilla Radio the last time Zach says “now”

Why did Toto load up their music with malware? I tried to listen to this just now, but all I got were 23 toolbars in my IE5!

.wma or .mp3 tho?

Fuck Trapt

Can’t think of a one hit wonder band with a more bigoted piece of shit as the front man. Dimly lite souls, the entire lot.

teenage_wasteland_the_who.mp3

Different problem, same vibe.

I thought “Bittersweet Symphony” was an Oasis song for years thanks to Limewire.

House of the Rising Sun by Pink Floyd. Turns out it was a cover ny Frijid Pink.

Rage Against The Machine - DX Theme

Yes. I once downloaded a Stroke9 greatest hits album, and it included the song “Story of a girl”. When it came on, I thought “huh, I didn’t know they did this song. Cool.” Then for more than 10 years I thought it was their song.

That Zelda song from some Flash video labeled as System of a Down.

Crawling_(9-11_Remix).mp3 (bonus points if it’s spelled Crawlin’)

Don’t Worry Be Happy by Bob Marley was the one I remember. It was not by Bob Marley at all. It was by Bobby McFarren and came out years after Marley died.

Good tune

Hehe : “AC/DC - Born to be wild”

Also “AC/DC - Jailbreak” which I later found was not ACDC… And later found it actually was.

(and yes, ac/dc because why not)

Legend_of_Zelda_-_System_of_a_down.mp3

Had one that was labeled as “Metallica + Trans-Siberian Orchestra”. Took me years to find out it was actually Savatage

I had Green Day - Story of a girl

In fact if you go to https://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/green_day you will see Story of a Girl listed as #5 of their top 5 songs.

The song is by Nine Days.