Digital music’s renaissance — iPod, illegal downloading, and digital recording software like ProTools — coincided with and created the popularity of Myspace, establishing a massive community of music-lovers, music-makers, and music-stealers. Bands and individuals uploaded millions of MP3s — some of their own music, some they’d downloaded on LimeWire. The sound of youth in 2006 was a tinny din of 128kb/s, but it was beautiful.
