[Lazamataz]

There was a GREAT acoustic performance on Howard Stern by some chick named Edna Swap. I guess she wrote the song 'Torn' that was then sung by Nancy Umbruglia.

But Nancy did the song in this peppy, upbeat manner, and the song is NOT peppy and upbeat. It's about a very destroyed woman, devastated by some jerky guy.

Nancy sings it peppy. Upbeat. Happy. The song was performed by Edna in a haunting, angst-filled way on Howard Sterns show -- and she said that was how it should have been performed. I looked for it everywhere. The only place I could find it was in the Gnutella world. I never could have found it anywhere else.

Xcrew the record companies. They are as bad as liberals, and in most cases, are one and the same.

[Brian Mosely]

Most, if not all of the stuff I get off the networks is material they will never release...like raw rehearsal tapes, early "before they were known" recordings and out of print movies. Disney will never reissue Song of the South, but it's there for the taking if you want it. Supply and demand. If they won't supply what the people want, they will just go somewhere else and get it.

[Drew68]

Xcrew the record companies. They are as bad as liberals, and in most cases, are one and the same.

Oh no. Now you've done it! There's gonna be a whole army of FReepers heading over here making accusations that downloading music/movies from the internet is no different than beating up grandma and running off with her Social Security check as happened on this thread.

[L`enn]

I saw Edna Swap 4 yrs ago in a club in Syracuse. They mentioned the fact that Natalie Imbruglia basically ran with their song and hit it big while they languished. A group called Stretch Princess appeared with them also. I came home and searched the web for info on them as they both were very good. The only place I found anything was on file-sharing FTP sites. This was pre-Napster.

The moral of the story is that file-sharing is good for the little guy and bad for the big-guy. The file-sharers get the bands the Corporate Recorders don't want to promote, or sign, out in the public eye.