500 Box: 'Cute white kids strumming guitars'

[Steve]

Patrick, I have just gone to Hong Kong (a Korean expression for
perfect happiness). Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Best wishes
Steve [TK]

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, patrick smith <postscriptxyz@...> wrote:
>
> Steve,
> 
> I also have a preference for 320kbps.  I've already downloaded the
25-1 flac file and converted to mp3.  So you can have a life tomorrow,
you can find it here
> 
> Pad
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Steve <so_it_goes_2512@...>
> To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, 26 February, 2009 0:31:43
> Subject: [peel] Re: 500 Box: 'Cute white kids strumming guitars'
> 
> 
> Thanks Roger for the first part: however, I wonder if anybody went
> through the pain that I did.
> 
> Step 1: Downloaded flac files (Rapidshare, 15 minute break between
> allowed downloads, and first file took nearly two hours).
> Step 2: Downloaded HJ-Split (thanks for the advice, guys).
> Step 3: Opened HJ-Split, then could not find files even though they
> were in same directory, per Martin' suggestion. Started to pull hair
> out, regretted giving up smoking.
> Step 4: After reading HJ-Split instructions about 001 files, had a
> flash of inspiration and renamed all flac files with suffixes 001,
> 002, 003, 004. Sweated more than in Korean sauna on Sunday.
> Step 5: Alleluia, HJ-Split read 001 and found other files. Joining
> took two minutes. Made cup of tea.
> Step 6: Attempted to open newly created Zip file. Was told archive was
> corrupted. Pulled more of increasingly greying hair out.
> Step 7: Last flash of inspiration, used Win Rar to open archive. Took
> eight minutes. Contemplated watching last episode of 'Kitchen
> Nightmares' again to get tips for dealing with next day's high school
> students.
> Step 8: Converted flac file into 320 kbps mp3.
> Step 9: Reminisced about Megaupload, then saw Roger's next post.
> Step 10: Prepared to repeat steps 1-9 tomorrow.
> 
> BTW, where does the extra bit of Peel featuring Boom Bip at the end
> come from?
> 
> Best wishes
> A haggard and bewildered Steve [TK]
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups. com, "bty997881" <roger.carruthers@ ...> wrote:
> >
> > So here are nos 25-1:
> > 
> > http://rapidshare. com/files/ 202314912/ FF03_25-1. flac.zip. 0
> > http://rapidshare. com/files/ 202319571/ FF03_25-1. flac.zip. 1
> > http://rapidshare. com/files/ 202338310/ FF03_25-1. flac.zip. 2
> > http://rapidshare. com/files/ 202348672/ FF03_25-1. flac.zip. 3
> > 
> > And here's some cheerful news: whilst I was doing these, I found
> that I had more of the 2002 
> > FF on DAT than I'd previously realized - like all of it! 
> >  There is one small break, a frantic scramble to change tapes during
> the Crimea's  'Lottery 
> > Winners on Acid', which I take to mean the program went over 2 hrs.
> I'll see if i can knock up 
> > an inaudible join, anyway.
> >  More to follow, then!
> > cheers
> > Roger
> >
>