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Post #215053 by Sabu The Coconut Boy on Thu, Feb 16, 2006 10:33 AM

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I've had good luck finding exotica using a service called EASYNEWS.COM. It costs about $9.99 a month and it grabs anything people post on the USENET groups and stores it for about 30 days. There is a global search feature and in the music newsgroups alone there are literally hundreds of thousands of mp3 files to look for and download at any time. You can even combine your selections together into a ZIP file and download them at once.

Looking right now, I see off the bat that someone has recently posted the complete Les Baxter's "Space Escapade" and "Ports of Pleasure". I also see "Cocktail Music for Robots", Mel Henke's "Dynamic Adventures In Sound", John Buzon's "Inferno", The Three Suns "Fever & Smoke", Esquivel's "To Love Again", Bob Thompson's "Mmm, Nice", a bunch of Hawaiian 78s, tons of surf albums, etc.

Some of these are ripped from vinyl, some are cd copies. I personally sample a lot of music, including new music, from this site. If I like something a lot, I go out and buy the cd. If you have major qualms about downloading copyrighted material, then I wouldn't suggest it. Also, if downloading tons of free online porn to the detriment of your wife's sanity is going to be a problem, then I wouldn't suggest it either.

I also use EASYNEWS as my personal TIVO. If I miss a TV show the night before, I know that someone has posted a hi-def TV version of it to the Usenets the next day as a .avi file. I can download it and watch it at my lunch break. Saves me worrying about being home at night to catch the latest episode of Survivor.

Some people use this site to download the latest video games or business software. There's a lot of media files out there in all shapes and sizes. Some of it's legal, some is not, some hasn't been decided yet.

Sabu