da gooroo's beatles beatlegs
turn me on, dead site: thanks to all the visitors and supporters of this site. as has been clearly evident for the past 8 months (or so), this site is essentially abandoned and dead. unfortunately, the demise of myspace.com and the anal retentiveness of Geocities, nbci.com and FortuneCity about housing bootlegs served to kill my intended goal of maintaining a fun (and free) little site where i could put up entire boot cds or at least more than the handful of selections seen on other beatles sites. oh well. keep reading...
to satisfy your hunger for beatles beatlegs, i recommend that you check out the following USENET newsgroup: alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.beatles
most isps carry absm.beatles, so look for it.
in order to download and decode the binaries you need a good program (not outlook or outlook express, for god's sake). my favorite is a freeware program called xnews. go to http://xnews.3dnews.net/ to get the latest version.
Click to read an interesting 1990 article on Beatlegs
another great place online for beatlegs is on IRC (Internet Relay Chat). use a client program like mIRC to access it (http://www.mirc.com). pay the shareware fee of $20 if you use mirc more than 30 days, because the creator did a helluva job making a great program that millions of folks use for chatting and sending files to each other. if everyone who used mirc paid the fee, the guy would be as rich as Paul McCartney, but i bet less than 1% of the users pay anything. okay, enough of the soapbox.
connect to any dalnet server. there are a bunch listed in various US and European cities. once connected, go to #mp3beatles and you'll find a bunch of nice (and strangely quiet) folks around the clock to get beatlegs from. it's not that easy for newbies, but kindly ask "htf does this work?" in the chatroom, and some benevolent person will clue you in.
... and a fond "so long" to our dear friend, george, who left us far too early.
