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Monday, August 19, 2002
 
Punk Rock Tunes

Some guy named Mark has a site called Punkrocktunes.com. I'm not sure how he gets away with it, but he has good quality rips of 4,100+ mp3's from 1,100+ bands with a definite focus on punk stuff. In some places he has full albums, and in some places there's just a song or two. A lot of the music comes from compilations. Every mp3 seems to be full length, of good quality, and named with the band, album, title, and track number. Like I said, I don't know how he gets away with it, but I'm listening to lots of stuff from there in an attempt to enhance my own mp3 collection. The only complaints that I have are that the download speeds are a bit slow and inconsistent (I have ranged from about 1.2 - 15.5 kb/sec) and that you can't download any more than two songs at a time. But in conjunction with your favorite p2p site, this is a great addition - while it lasts.

It's been the only place so far that I have been able to anything by Flea Circus. They were a punk rock band in Chicago that I saw maybe 5 or 6 times in the late 80's or early 90's. I could have sworn they put out an EP and a couple of 7"s, but I hadn't found anything until Punkrocktunes.com who had a song from them from the Achtung Chicago! Zwei comp. I was happy to find this little nugget, and I'm certain you'll be able to find a gem or two in there.