Interested in a 3gig torrent of free music?

[thewayne]

SXSW (South by Southwest) is an annual music (and other) festival in its 21st year in Austin that runs from March 9 to 18 and features "...more than 150 panels, 200 films and 1,400 music acts at some 60 venues". Two years ago, said festival started torrenting a single song from any band performing there that wanted to supply one. The torrent was around 3.8gig, IIRC. I wasn't able to find a torrent of last year's event, but this year they are back.

The torrent info is here: http://2007.sxsw.com/toolbox/

More info and continuing coverage can be found at Wired: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,72918-0.html

Comments

[qe2.livejournal.com]

Last year's was harder to find than 2005's, but I found it eventually and downloaded the contents. I've yet to listen to it (you do not want to know how much music lives on my external brains), but I'd be happy to send it to you...

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

That might be cool! I'm afraid that I'm a bit stodgy in my music tastes, I tend towards rock from the 70's and 80's, but there was some cool stuff on the '05 version.

I seem to recall that '05 was something like 3000 songs? Or was it like 1800? It was a lot of music regardless. I also seem to recall liking "The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash".

Should I email you my street address?

[qe2.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid that I'm a bit stodgy in my music tastes, I tend towards rock from the 70's and 80's

Eh. I don't judge people for that. My collection runs from Gregorian chant to the Spice Girls :-).

The file I have may be incomplete, but it comes in at a bit under 1,000 songs.

And yes, please do mail me your snailmail addy. I'll try to get the files copied to CD and sent to you in the next couple of weeks. Unless you'd prefer a zip file or four?

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

No hurry, a DVD whenever would be fine. My ISP is pretty flaky, I don't know yet if I'll be able to get the torrent for this year.

My snail mail addr will be on its way shortly!