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Now that the music is widely available, the search for that specific .RAR is no longer about piracy—it is about nostalgia for a specific digital process . It is the memory of waiting 20 minutes for a download via LimeWire, praying the file wasn't actually "Bill Clinton_Wav.exe." However, there is a catch for the purists