# New Smashing Pumpkins mp3s
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-smashing-pumpkins-mp3s/33101
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 14, 2000, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-smashing-pumpkins-mp3s/33101 "2000-09-14T01:12:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2000, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-smashing-pumpkins-mp3s/33101/1 "2000-09-14T01:12:06Z")
I’ve spent the last two days searching for these, so, I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s been looking for them.
For the uninitiated, [The Smashing Pumpkins](http://www.smashingpumpkins.com) have decided to release their last album, _Machina II/Friends and Enemies of Modern Music_, outside of their record company (Virgin, in the USA), via 25 copies distributed to select fans, who were free to distribute them via mp3 online. This is all 100% legal.
[This](http://users.syd.eastlink.ca/~tclarke/pumpkins.htm) is the first site I’ve found that has all 25 of the mp3s, in rather high (192kb/s) quality.
More information about this release can be found [here](http://rock.yahoo.com/rock/music_news/sonicnet/story.html?s=n/sonicnet/rock/news/20000913/20000913008).
Enjoy.
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### Author:  [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-smashing-pumpkins-mp3s/33101/2 "2000-09-14T01:16:47Z")
It’s down! ack!
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### Author:  [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2000, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-smashing-pumpkins-mp3s/33101/3 "2000-09-14T01:21:00Z")
I just reloaded the site without problem.
[hijacking my own thread]
BTW, you wouldn’t happen to be the same Wonko the Sane that used to be on the Rush mailing list, The National Midnight Star? Or, is “Wonko the Sane” a reference to something that someone else used, and eludes me?
[/hijacking my own thread]
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### Author:  [@Gatsby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatsby)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2000, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-smashing-pumpkins-mp3s/33101/4 "2000-09-14T01:31:41Z")
Yeah, I’t up. I’m presently downloading the first track. It’s so cool to see a band embrace the MP3 format!
Montfort, I was totally unaware of this, but I’m only a casual Pumpkins fan. Thanks for the info and the link.
Also, I checked FTP sites for these tracks on [http://www.oth.net](http://www.oth.net). There are tons of sites, but they’re all trade or ratio, so I’m using your link. Thanks again!
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### Author:  [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2000, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-smashing-pumpkins-mp3s/33101/5 "2000-09-14T02:43:53Z")
**Gatsby** , I’m a slightly casual Pumpkins fan, myself, but I was listening to _Machina_ (the first one) in the car over the weekend and really liked it. Then, I saw something on Yahoo about this “last album” and went a-looking for it.
You’re welcome. I figured I wasn’t the only one interested.
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### Author:  [@Aglarond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aglarond)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2000, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-smashing-pumpkins-mp3s/33101/6 "2000-09-14T13:25:57Z")
Thanks for the link, Montfort. All the ones I’d found previously were dead.
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### Author:  [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2000, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-smashing-pumpkins-mp3s/33101/7 "2000-09-14T13:41:59Z")
Thanks, Montfort!
The Pumpkins are one of my favorite bands, actually, but I wasn’t aware of this.
I’ve seen the band in concert several times, including a very small club date at St. Andrew’s Hall in Detroit just before _Machina_ came out, only like 900-1000 people.
Sorry to see them breaking up, but I’m sure the solo stuff will keep coming.
But as the anti-computer-geek here (who doesn’t even have a sound or video card for his computer), I have my work cut out for me to get this last album.
Somebody I know somewhere has to be able to download this for me and burn me a CD or two. I’ll get to work on it.
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### Author:  [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-smashing-pumpkins-mp3s/33101/8 "2000-09-14T15:07:34Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Milossarian \*
> \*\*Somebody I know somewhere has to be able to download this for me and burn me a CD or two. I’ll get to work on it. \*\*
For the record, the 25 tracks make up about 92 minutes, or 12 minutes too long for a single 80 minute CD. So, you’re going to end up with 2 short CDs, which can be neatly broken down by how the Pumpkins originally released them: one 10" record, and then another set of 3 single 7"ers.
Look [here](http://rock.yahoo.com/rock/music_news/sonicnet/story.html?s=n/sonicnet/rock/news/20000913/20000913009) for the breakdown of tracks.
And, Milo, if you _really_ can’t find someone to burn them for you, give me an e-. I’ll see if I can work something out with you.
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### Author:  [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-smashing-pumpkins-mp3s/33101/9 "2000-09-14T19:33:42Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Montfort \*
> \*\*I just reloaded the site without problem.
>
> [hijacking my own thread]
> BTW, you wouldn’t happen to be the same Wonko the Sane that used to be on the Rush mailing list, The National Midnight Star? Or, is “Wonko the Sane” a reference to something that someone else used, and eludes me?
> [/hijacking my own thread] \*\*
Whoooooeee! you are the third person to mistake me for another Wonko The Sane. (all three were different wonkos.)
Wonko The Sane is a minor character in the fourth book of the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. It’s an obscure, but not that unusual name for netizens.
The site works better under IE for me.
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### Author:  [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-smashing-pumpkins-mp3s/33101/10 "2000-09-14T20:13:56Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Wonko The Sane \*
> **Wonko The Sane is a minor character in the fourth book of the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. It’s an obscure, but not that unusual name for netizens.**
Ahh, maybe I should re-read those books one of these days. I last read them in 7th grade, about fifteen years ago, back when there were only four books in the trilogy.
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### Author:  [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2000, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-smashing-pumpkins-mp3s/33101/11 "2000-09-14T22:17:27Z")
> [@](#):
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> And, Milo, if you really can’t find someone to burn them for you, give me an e-. I’ll see if I can work something out with you.
I’ve got my own personal technology geek friend downstate working on burning me the CDs at the moment.
Thanks for the offer, though, Montfort.