Radio Spirits
Depending on your point of view, Radio
Spirits is either a savior of old time radio, or it is the
Devil reincarnate!
Radio Spirits is just about the preeminent supplier of old radio
shows. Their catalog includes many famous comedy shows, mysteries,
westerns and specialty shows.
You can take a listen to their daily and weekly radio shows
(these are actual radio broadcasts that take place on current
AM stations across the country) by visiting their web site.
They sometimes offer specials on some of their tape sets. These
typically include 9 or more episodes on 6 cassettes all packaged
in a special caseabout the size of a VHS tape case.
I won't try to excerpt any of their works. And this is where
the Spawn of Satan comes in. Radio Spirits may or may not have
definitive rights to many of the tapes they sell. But they threaten
others who either try to sell or trade or post MP3 for free of
things they claim to own. And apparently, they refuse to provide
documentation.
So, you can either go out there and look for free downloads of
your favorites or buy them from RS. One thing... the quality of
the recordings that you get from RS is generally higher than the
MP3s out there. The real problem being that the people who started
converting the shows to MP3 back a couple years ago thought they
would be smart and make the files as small as possible. And that
means that they aren't 128KB or higher sampling rates, they are
often as low as 16KB and that spells "crap fidelity"
in any language.
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