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The Traders' Den is the first bittorrent site i ever joined. I had seen Sharing the Groove a few times by accident but never joined. The idea of downloading shows seemed beyond my capacity in terms of my ability and in terms of the computer i had at the time.

Soon after returning from Cream at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2005, I started seeing links to shows posted here. I decided that, although it was probably too complicated to download them, i'd give it a shot because i wanted a souvenir and the DVD was still 6 months away. So i asked a coworker and he gave me links to a client, decompression software, and some information on what to do and I joined this site and downloaded my first of many shows here and, eventually, elsewhere.

As the first site i ever joined, this one is special and that's why i'm making a comment. Many sites that i joined over the year (Boot City, Hunger City, this city, that city) are gone and i moved on to others but i have to comment on this one, being the very first. I'll miss it but understand the rationale behind closing it down.

Thank you for making the past 18 years a lot more musical, Traders' Den!