I did get music for free. But at the time internet was barely a concept were i lived (rural city in bumfuck nowhere) so my setup for getting free music was recording it from the radio to a cassette and then digitize it on a freak in-bay tape deck on my uncle’s pc. So i could load it on a nomad jukebox i had somehow found for cheap at a flea market. (And no. I wasn’t smart enough to plug the nomad straight into the radio and record)
I miss that hackery. I don’t miss the abysmal audio quality
I’ve changed the bushings on my fan (industrial fan from ~ 1980) already 3 times in it’s service life. And regreased it each season. If it dares to die i’ll go and pull it back fom hell myself. Modern stuff can’t hold a candle to that monster.