LimeWire.exe

Hahaha I remember using LimeWire and Bearshare.

Man I’m old.

Did you have LimeWire on your computer? Or the family computer?

No dad i didn’t you’re not blaming me for the viruses nice try

Why is your homework folder 4 GB?

I was like 10 so I don’t remember lol

I’ll do you one better, WinMX

Morpheus, Kazaa, and hands down the best - SoulSeek. It had by far the best users and collections.

Forgot about Morpheus. And what’s this “had” business with slsk?

SLSK is still alive, well, and the best place for super rare music!

Haha, same. We had emule und kazaa 😄

Waiting 30 minutes to download a song just to hear someone’s bad Bill Clinton impression saying “my fellow Americans…”, the best of times and the worst of times

Wait. This rings a bell, was there also an Arnold Schwarzenegger impression on this mp3?

Must have been nice to afford an mp3 player back then. I bet you unironically Grey Pouponed people too.

I got one of these for like $20 at Sears. They were far from bougie lol

I thought the Grey Poupon reference would have made it pretty clear it was a joke, but whatever.

Dongle mp3 players were super cheap, you could get one for basically free in the early aughts.

They’re the lowest tier nugget and companies kept giving them away with their logo on it

What? These were only like 30 euro, every kid with some pocket money could get one.

Getting so many songs by the wrong artist.

I had headstrong_linkinpark.

I could never find it on their albums.

Years later find out its by Trapt instead haha

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

Pretty sure the biggest victims of this were Rockapella (who apparently did every a cappella song) and Weird Al (who apparently recorded every comedy song).

Here’s how cool Al Yankovic is though: for years he maintained a list on his website of every comedy song falsely attributed to him and all the actual artists who made them. I don’t think it’s up anymore, there can’t be much need for it these days, but Al was very cool for doing that.

It wasn’t entirely altruistic on Weird Al’s part; he was also upset about getting associated with comedy songs that had profane lyrics.

I think I had crimson and clover by “Pink Floyd”

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.

Rage Against The Machine - DX Theme

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

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.

teenage_wasteland_the_who.mp3

Different problem, same vibe.

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’)

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.

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)

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.

Did everyone just think that the song was made by Bob Marley?

I think it was because it sounded like reggae and most people only know of one reggae singer.

Legend_of_Zelda_-_System_of_a_down.mp3

If anyone was wondering, it was Rabbit Joint that did the Zelda cover

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

You could use LimeWire to get LimeWire Pro. Good times.

But wasn’t Limewire Pro just extra viruses and ads though?

You just traided the ads with all your accounts on your PC

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