Those sites still existed last I checked, which was a few years ago. Once in a while I get nostalgic for something I grabbed on one of those sites around 2005,

Those sites still existed last I checked, which was a few years ago. Once in a while I get nostalgic for something I grabbed on one of those sites around 2005, I'll run a search for it and find three new blogs posting pirate links to an eclectic mix of music they consider cool. I remember reading that Google did something to derank them, so they may finally be dead, but they continued on for a long time past when I visited them daily for hipster cred.