DOWNLOADING MP3s from Websites Weekly

[ricohv]

I know a bunch of us download series of songs at least weekly from sites and occasionally might miss a week and then not have the complete concert or whatever. I hate writing the webmaster/mistress asking them to send (what a pain in the a*s to be) and I hate starting a post here just to get a few songs (although I am not above it and have done it !).
So I was thinking we should start an e-mail list that everyone participating would have. If you miss some downloads, send an e-mail to the list. Someone will inevitably have what you want and would 1) send a response saying they will send the songs (and do this by hitting the "reply to all" tab so everyone else knows not to send) then send the songs attached to another e-mail.
I would be willing to sort of manage this and see if it worked if anyone's interested. Also, anybody in the group who wanted could send a list of all of their complete concerts, bootlegs, etc. to the rest of the group. Or maybe I could collect them from whoever wanted to do that and list them all somewhere so we could see collectively what all we have. Then you might see that someone has the complete Mac show from Australia 04/01/80, the one that you've had for forever but was missing songs 13-16. Or, we could just make a big "wish list":a list of what each person is missing or hardcore looking for. If you have those songs you could send to them.
I know there are lots of sites/pages with people who do trading, but they always intimidate me (what could I have that some smarty-pants-who-is-smarter-than-me-and-can-make-their-own-website would want?). Also, they are always trading cd's, videos etc which I dont have to trade. Also, I would probably accidentally do something stupid and end up with my headshot and home address smeared all over their bad traders list! I want to just focus on mp3s, especially those from current download sites. And with all of us doing this as a collective or co-op or whatever, we'd have access to a lot of music that could really beef up our collections. Any thoughts?
Thanks, Ricoh
p.s. FYI on a couple sites: http://www.fleetwoodmac.de.vu/ is a great site to see an overview of what songs are currently posted at all the sites (at least all the sites I knew about and one or two that I didn't) and www.streamload.com is a site where you can get storage (free for the first month!) if you don't have room or need to transfer songs from one computer to another and don't have an easy way like an exterior harddrive (?) or whatever. You just upload songs to that site and the download wherever you want. I had downloaded a ton of songs at work because of high speed computer at work/slow speed at home. But when I got fired (OUCH!!![and not for downloading songs either!]) I wanted to get as much as possible home so I opened up 3 accounts in different names to do the transfer and then cancelled before the free month was up. And oh yeah, I'm not as shifty as I sound, really!
and if you don't have a lot of room for storage