I come from the era before Spotify and Apple Music. Not quite as far back as the days of vinyl, but rather the days when physical media was just beginning to die. Caught in the weird transition period where CDs were on the way out, and big companies hadn’t yet figured out how to swindle us for monthly payments to listen to music, there was a sea of pirate websites where youngsters like me could get hold of music. The two biggest ones that I remember kids at school using were

At the start of the year, I began a mission to de-rot and de-slop my life. With our attention being pulled in a million different directions, it’s easier than ever to resort to the default habit of consuming meaningless content for hours on end. With so much of my time being pissed away scrolling on Instagram, watching garbage on Netflix, or – even worse – just staring into space, I decided that enough was enough. It was time to make a change. The Changes I treated it like a