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Flipping To FLAC, Turning To Torrents

The Old Punk — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:31:34 +0000

I've been mulling over this for a while now, but I've decided to take the plunge and start encoding my rips as FLACs rather than MP3s. It's the best way of ensuring as flawless a copy as possible of the original vinyl (within the restrictions of the kit I use). With a FLAC file you're [...]

Open House

The Old Punk — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:28:12 +0000

If anyone's interested, Punk Torrents is currently open for registration (although probably not for long). So hurry up and sign up if you want the chance to grab and share some fine rare punk and punk-related audio, video and literature. There's also general info, discussions, intelligent debate and occasional stupidity to entertain you while you're [...]

Hot Off The Presses

The Old Punk — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:40:53 +0000

Just a quickie...Punk Torrents will be open for registration from sometime around teatime today until Sunday eve. It's free, it's friendly and it's full of moist musical morsels.

And thanks to Burke for this email:

I just wanted to say thanks for posting this Culture Shock LP. I havent heard this in probably 12 years but has [...]

A Friendly Request

The Old Punk — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:39:14 +0000

A couple of the Blogger bloggers in my side bar don't allow comments from non-Blogger bloggers. I've grabbed a few things from their excellent uploads but I can't leave a thanks without signing up for a Blogger account. I can barely remember my own name sometimes, so there's just no chance of remembering user names [...]

Re-open For Business

The Old Punk — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:20:18 +0000

Punk Torrents has opened up registration again. I don't know how long this will last for (in recent times it's been 24 hours), so you may want to register quick if you want to jump on the BitTorrent bandwagon. If you use Windows I'd suggest using uTorrent as your client (I've not bothered or needed [...]

Torrent-tastic, Punk-pickers!

The Old Punk — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:38:07 +0000

Getting to grips with file-sharing technology

Note: since writing this, Punktorrents has closed its registration. However, registration is often re-opened for a day or two (usually on the weekend) so I'll post up the details if that happens.

Despite the fact that I ventured into the world of the hairless head many moons ago (more recently by [...]