@cannonmc: You'll have some problem with KickAss Torrents - the original has ceased. Two good sources for music are usenet and good ol' youtube. Some amazing hard to find music there and there are plenty of download helpers around. Not positive about private music trackers - they do seem to be elitist, and I'm not talking about the music. Haha. Well, shows how much I've bothered to try using KickAss since getting into other trackers! Youtube is definitley good for sampling a lot of different music, and there's literally shit tons of even very obscure recordings on there, though ripping audio from youtube is far from an ideal solution. I'm not knocking it, though. I've done it too as a last resort when all other sources failed to turn up results. As for private music trackers being elitist, I am not sure what you mean. True, they have a lot of rules, but that's because they typically have high standards for torrents uploaded and for the users who download them. As with any tracker, you should seed for as long as possible. Pay it forward and you'll be rewarded with the privilege of being allowed to remain a member, which is really simple and not a lot to ask. High standards are a good thing, because they offer some guarantee that you'll get quality torrents and reliable seeders more often than not. Or do you mean the users themselves are elitist? From my personal experience, a lot of people on private music trackers who are really active in their respective forums are your typical annoying, college-aged wannabe-bohemes, trendies, "hipsters", etc., but, fortunately, you don't have to interact with them just to use the trackers. At any rate, I wouldn't call them "elitist" per se. Annoying, yes, but not really elitist. Just my two cents, of course. If the other suggestions suffice for the OP, that's fine too. I don't expect everyone to be as anal about lossless files and logs and CUE sheets and 24-bit vinyl rips I can't tell sound any different from 320Kbps rips (but can "feel" the difference ::)) as I am.

That's pretty interesting i've heard of this band should def give them a listen.

I was a kid in the mid-late 90's. Back then, I was all about stuff like Korn and Deftones (they were both huge at the time). TBH, I can't stand the stuff now (I can tolerate the old Deftones stuff, but Korn just sounds like the product a bunch of dumb, white trash tweakers, because that's precisely what they were in those days). The only band from back then that I still really love (love) today is Type O Negative, but they've always stuck out like a sore thumb amongst the "alt./numetal/groove metal/post-grunge/blah blah blah" bands that were de rigueur in the mid-to-late 90's and early 2000's. I like some of the pre-numetal "grunge/alternative" from the late 80's and early 90's as well, but I think a lot of it sounds painfully dated and manufactured, and, TBH, I can't stand the cult of personality surrounding people like Cobain. Stuff like Melvins and Dinosaur Jr. is really good, though, I think.

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For a stylized performer cashing in on some retro glam vibes, I love her

Posh spice, please

No, I do not miss her. Please stay away.

If "the gays" are losing anything, it's their edge. Gays are more and more accepted in mainstream western society. That's great, but the simple fact is, there's less and less "necessity" and room for gay-exclusivity, and less and less distinction between "gay" and "straight" culture, identity, etc., because gay style and culture are essentially being evaporated into the mainstream heterosexual macrocosm. Gay culture is becoming another indistinguishable element of the mainstream. Personally, I don't like it. All these straight people acting and dressing up like queers and thinking they're really "hip" (as opposed to shockingly unoriginal) is just embarrassing. I don't want to throw around loaded words like "appropriation", because I can't abide puffed-up SJW buzzword salad or the people who use it to push their agenda, but that's basically what it is. Surely I'm not the only one to notice it, right? Like I said, it's good that gay people are being more and more accepted, but with that comes a lot of straight people stealing all our good ideas and neutering them. Comes with the territory. It happens with anything that becomes "mainstream"… Look at punk! EDIT: Also, all of this: @oerouen: I don't think Gay Anthems are truly part of our holistic identity so much as they are a generational trend that has faded out along with Circuit Parties, Tribal Tattoos, and the Queer As Folk aesthetic. Personally, I also think that mainstream has actually drifted more towards us, and so in reality, it just feels less unique/special/subversive than it did in prior decades.

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