downloading full cd's was a BITCH back then. I had 5 or 6 sites I'd go to just to find something "alive". The worst would be downloading a rare cd and have the links go dead half way though the process.
I hated Napster too. I couldn't download for shit because the upload would kill my bandwidth. Oh, also ... I remember when the record industry tried to sabotage Napster by flooding them with static tracks.