I grew up in the US in the middle of nowhere but within the shadow of a larger town. There was a small flea market that had a few stalls that carried stuff lik

I grew up in the US in the middle of nowhere but within the shadow of a larger town. There was a small flea market that had a few stalls that carried stuff like this, but nothing on this scale. Everything old is new again - I look at these pictures and I think of how big private BitTorrent trackers are with their curation, discovery, and exchange of materials. If you factor in the blank discs used for burning things, it works out to about $1 to turn a set of FLACs into a CD with a cue sheet, so the economics are the same even though the distribution is all online now.