douglas adams in mp3

July 24, 2003 4:07 PM

douglas adams mp3 audio archive... "The Douglas Adams media archive is presented here by the wi2600.org groups for your enjoyment. This allso is to serve as a tribute to Mr. Adams's great, but suddely shortened career. Those who have not heard his voice and those who know it well will both enjoy having this material available. We will miss him!"
posted by crunchland (16 comments total)

Pardon me while I go empty my hard drive.
posted by tyro urge at 4:21 PM on July 24, 2003

Now, if they only had Douglas Adams live up there...
posted by RakDaddy at 4:34 PM on July 24, 2003

...and I meant his live album, not him alive. Though it'd be cool if he were alive. Really.
posted by RakDaddy at 4:34 PM on July 24, 2003

OK. Excellent. I really want to know - *how* on earth did you find that?!?!?
posted by Pericles at 5:09 PM on July 24, 2003

Um....just a note....those files are copyrighted....downloading them would technically be illegal - unless you owned the CDs or tapes they came from....

If you really want to honor Adams - go buy the CDs - and support his family who probably misses him even more that we do.
posted by jaded at 5:18 PM on July 24, 2003

Also: "life the universe and everything" is incomplete and missing one of the best jokes he ever wrote...
posted by jaded at 5:19 PM on July 24, 2003

*how* on earth did you find that?!?!?

I surf the web so you don't have to.
posted by crunchland at 5:55 PM on July 24, 2003

WarezFilter
posted by inpHilltr8r at 5:58 PM on July 24, 2003

Metafilterz
posted by signal at 9:03 PM on July 24, 2003

You don't suppose this is an attempt by the RIAA at entrapment? Who is this "crunchland" anyway?
posted by o2b at 9:25 PM on July 24, 2003

Type douglas adams audio into google and it's the first hit.

The only reason I discovered that just now is because I wanted to find a place to actually buy them.
posted by George_Spiggott at 12:08 AM on July 25, 2003

well, that's a way, but not the way...
posted by crunchland at 4:23 AM on July 25, 2003

Also: "life the universe and everything" is incomplete and missing one of the best jokes he ever wrote...

Would that be the whole "Belgium" bit? If so -and IIRC- DNA never liked it, which is why the UK edition just goes ahead and says "fuck".
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 4:50 AM on July 25, 2003

Personally, I think DNA's greatest lines are from Last Chance to See, in which he provides two of the greatest descriptions ever of sight ("Fjordland, New Zealand - the type of landscape that makes you burst into spontaneous applause") and sound ("the sound is reminiscent of being thrown into the pit of hell with the London Symphany Orchestra.")
posted by XQUZYPHYR at 7:30 AM on July 25, 2003

PST: No - that would not be the Belgium bit. I always thought that funny, but certainly not his greatest joke.

I refer to the bit near the beginning which details the plight of one Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, how he came to be so, and his chosen task for the rest of his days: To insult everyone in the universe.

In alphabetical order.
posted by jaded at 11:42 AM on July 25, 2003

Oh that's a good bit. What an unfortunate omission. I still don't know what a kneebiter is (and no one tell me either: it has a certain mystique right now).
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 11:49 AM on July 25, 2003