@Feddylain @cummies it was a big part of my childhood so i guess i just had an "im old" moment in thinking about how hard it is to convey what exactly was interesting about this notion at the time

anyway feel free to rummage through this endless mountain of garbage: https://archive.org/details/netlabels

even at the time, the idea of being able to release an "album" that was just (literally) you gargling along to elvis songs, saving it at 16kbps and putting it out on your friends netlabel because nothing cost anything was a neat exploration of creativity and distribution on the internet