![]() ![]() ![]() By the time I was in high school (2002), anyone my age knew how to get anything digital for free. The thought of all this being illegal most likely didn’t even cross my mind at the time: it was a revelation, something totally unexpected but that opened the door to limitless possibilities I could have complete access to the music I wanted, quickly, at no cost. A friend of a friend could access a website where you could get any album you wanted, for free and in a matter of hours: his music collection, made exclusively of burned CDs, was immense. As my music taste shifted towards heavier sounds, I began to realize that CDs were often difficult to find and always very expensive: and that’s when I came across file-sharing. Two years later I started middle school, and my interest in music became an obsession. ![]() At home, we used our old Aiwa Hi-fi system to play vinyl from my parents’ vast collection of classical music (my mother was an opera singer) and psychedelic rock (my father was a teenager in the late 60’s). Buy a discounted Paperback of How Music Got Free online from. He bought Nirvana’s Unplugged for himself, on tape. Booktopia has How Music Got Free, The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief by Stephen Witt. I was 9 at that time, but I still remember when my father took me to the local music shop to buy Offspring’s Americana. Having spent my childhood in the Italian countryside, I had the opportunity to experience the rise of digital music in slow-motion. ![]()
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