By all accounts it's still full to the brim with incredibly rare records that you can't get anywhere else. It has the niche for music that doesn't exist as par

By all accounts it's still full to the brim with incredibly rare records that you can't get anywhere else. It has the niche for music that doesn't exist as part of any kind of album: unreleased tracks, demos, dubplates and so forth. I guess that's why its napster-style architecture still works. There's a lot of trading that goes on between individual users.