We've had a great 20 years!

[U2Lynne]

Update: xavier242 has expressed an interest in taking over the site. We are working on this now. Most likely, the site will still close at the end of this month, but then reopen on a new server with upgraded software. I will keep you all posted.



It's been a great 18 years, but it is time to say goodbye to TTD.

Eighteen years ago, after the demise of Sharing The Groove, a few of us music sharers decided to start The Traders' Den to continue to be able to share the great live music that a few brave, awesome tapers had managed to record. One thing that was important to us was that the lineage of the shows be shared with the recordings. We also strived to weed out the non-original recordings when possible. Yes, this was new for a lot of users and I know it pissed many off, but I think in the end we managed to bring a lot of users around to our way of thinking and I like to think that the music sharing community is better for our efforts.

But now, our site is struggling. We have 18 year old software running on old servers with old PHP and MySQL and, to be honest, it would be quite the effort to bring it all up to date. The vBulletin side would not be as hard to upgrade, but our tracker is even older than our vBulletin software and it would require a lot of rewriting of the code to make it compatible with the newer versions of PHP and MySQL that we need. We've done our best to try to keep the site just chugging along, but I think there is just nothing we can do at this point to keep things moving smoothly without a major upgrade.

So, it is with a heavy heart that we have decided to close down TTD at the end of this month.

I want to thank our fearless moderators for all their time and effort on this site. I know it hasn't always been easy for them answering the same questions over and over again, but they did it. They also had to deal with some rather interesting characters that came along, but they always seemed to keep their cool while doing it. They put in many hours of their time just helping to make TTD the best site we possibly could. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! This site couldn't have reached it's potential without your efforts!

I also want to thank all of the tapers. This site couldn't have existed at all if it wasn't for you all. Taping isn't a hobby just anyone can get into. I think you need to have nerves of steal to get your equipment past security into some shows. And then to have to stand still to make a great recoding instead of jumping up and down with the music... well, you guys are all heroes in my eyes, so thank you all!

To all the uploaders, well, this site obviously would never have lasted at all without you guys. Even during our rocky server times, you still managed to stick in there and upload. Yes, I know it was frustrating, but you still did it with very little complaining. So thank you all for your continued efforts and all the time you put into each of your uploads!

To all the users, this site also couldn't have lasted this long without you. You guys stuck with us through all the hard times as we tried to get this site going in the direction we wanted it to go. And even though we never pushed for donations, you all managed to contribute enough every month to keep us going. Thank you!

One last think about the site, right now I have the site back to using cloudflare. I know this will break the tracker for a few of you. However, if I turn off cloudflare, then it breaks the whole site. So, for the next two weeks, I am going to leave it as it is right now. I am sorry about this. And for those of you seeing a white page.... it seems some browsers are automatically redirecting to https instead of http if we are using cloudflare. I know Safari doesn't do this, but the latest version of Firefox does. You can turn it off in Preferences > Network Settings > unclick the box next to Enable DNS over HTTPS.

So long TTD, you will always have a special place in my heart! :love:


U2Lynne :whip:

****
Other sites to check out:


DimeADozen (http://www.dimeadozen.org) - capped registration
eTree (http://bt.etree.org)
Zomb Tracker (http://www.zombtracker.the-zomb.com)
Yeeshkul! (http://www.yeeshkul.com) - mostly Pink Floyd
U2 Torrents (http://u2torrents.com) - everything U2
Genesis-Movement Torrent (http://torrent.genesis-movement.org) - everything Genesis
Royal-Orleans (http://royal-orleans.com/) - everything Led Zeppelin
Electric Ladyland (http://electricladyland.synology.me/)

[dazed64]

Thank you for the 18 years of music….

[LeifH12345]

Ah jeez
Thanks for everything

[GBPackers]

Thanks. It was a great run.

[hey man]

whatever, I'm going to Everyday Jones

[hey man]

:lol4:

[Orangeboy]

All good things must come to an end it seems.
Thanks Lynne for all you've done!

[spursfan]

Huge thanks to everyone that made this site great. Going to miss the shenanigans of the lounge but more of the great shows posted. Been here a long time. Again, a big thank you to all. Be safe.

[GreenFuz]

Thank you, everyone!

[jerryholmes]

This is worse than 9/11.

[Blues_Ken]

Sad to hear that but a hearty thanks to all who made it great

[cbg5150]

What a bummer. I know this is selfish of me, because I am not an admin that is trying to fix everything all the time to keep it going, but I loved this site because I could post everything I recorded and not have to worry about certain bands not allowed, etc. I really enjoyed sharing all my music on here and intended on starting my series back up on here. I will miss not having TTD to look forward to daily looking for what's new and sharing my recordings. The selfish part of me wishes you'd just keep it going and dedicate your time as you have, but I really understand. I'm gonna miss this site a lot! :wave::clap:

[basshead65]

all things fade in time. it's been a pleasure stopping by over the years so many thanx for the work put in to the site. see ya at the next show....

[gdmulezep]

thank you so much for all that you have done to keep this going as long as you have.

[Luis Cipher]

HI,
So sad to learn about the end of the adventure of The Traders' Den, but also so happy to have had the opportunity to find so many great concerts during all these years on this site and to have been able to build up a collection of concerts that make me happy!
thank you from southwestern France and good luck to all.

[deadtrail]

What amazing music you guys helped get out there for others to enjoy! Thank you so much for having me along for a nice part of the ride. Best to you in future endeavors.

[Blatch]

Well damn, I wasn't expecting this. It feels like TTD is one of those places that has always existed. Gonna be real weird to not have a... fourth or fifth torrent tracker to obsessively refresh. DIME, Lossless Legs and YEESHKUL! are my main places, and I also browse etree, but that place kinda sucks.

Thanks for all the great memories, even if I never really talked here. Coincidentally, one of my neighbors died today too. I'm not sure which is more important. :disbelief

[sunshinedavedream]

Thanks so much for everything! I literally built my entire Pink Floyd collection from the generous folks here, replacing tons of cruddy cassettes with the good stuff:) Whenever I had a request from an old friend, I could almost always find material here. This place rocks and will be missed by many!

[LiveMusicIsBetter]

Wow, what a bummer, I owe half of my audio and video archives to you guys. Thanks for your tireless and generous efforts throughout the years!

Wishing you all the best and a happy relaxing rest of your lives, cheers!:wave:

Thank you, thank you, thank you!:clap:

[peanut_butter]

Sad news but thank you so much all the work that went into the site over the years. Traders' Den will be missed, but music will live on. So long.

[Andy Pandy]

Such a shame ;-(

Thanx to everyone

RESPECT!

[coldengrey12]

An understandable but still sad decision

Thanks for everything over the years! I've snagged and hopefully shared lots of great tunes!

[mikeymike]

Really sorry to see it go. There were some amazing shows that I downloaded. Thank you for everything.

[Orangeboy]

Welcome to our newest member, Smerpp
What the fuck? (probably)

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[jerryholmes]

UUyQ0z0bSms

[johncorey]

Oh, that is really bad news. I thank very much all of you who are part of the TTD team for the amazing experience that it has been to be part of this community.

[hey man]

does this mean I won't be getting my STG t-shirt?

[wharfratjoe]

THANK YOU!!!

[zafreth1]

THanks!

[dorrcoq]

Well, as one of the first members and one of the biggest uploaders it's hard for me to envision a world without TTD. Very sad news for sure. Thanks Lynne and everyone else who kept this site viable for so long.

[camelwalker]

I’ve been here since 2007 and I can’t even count all the amazing things that I have gotten from the site. Thank you to the moderators to the people that wrote the code to the tapers and up loaders, thanks everyone for the hard work you’ve done.

Music is the best!

[vanomatic]

Many thanks for keeping this site up for so long - much appreciated !

[Lippy]

A big thank you to everyone involved in maintaining this site and those who shared countless amazing concerts over the years. You have broadened and deepened many musical horizon!

[Rockitgurl]

It is going to be a hard habit to break. It's been a part of my day for many years.
I'm sad but better for it being here for 18 years :)
Much thanks to everyone who had a hand in this = TTD.

:wave: :cheers:

[Macrinus]

Thanks A TON for all that the admins & moderators have done for this site over the years! :)

[Mr. Clumpy]

Wow, I can't believe it's been that long. Thanks to all for your efforts. It's been a great run.

[ballsdeep]

well son of a son of a sailor, it's not April 1st, either...

THANK YOU!!!

for.

***everything***.



will miss going here to see if I've already upped shows or not, as the MB is easily searchable.

[thepolicearchive]

I'm absolutely devastated by the loss of a great site like The Traders' Den. I myself have only been here for a couple years but it feels like a lifetime with all the amazing shows and people I've met along the way.

Nothing else to say but thank you, thank you, thank you.

[CaverDave]

Thanks for all the music! My hard drive (and backups!) have more music than I can possibly listen to. TTD, Dime, Etree, and others have provided more music than I can ever possibly listen to at this point in my life. I hope that future generations will occasionally look back to our era of live music and find that it influenced the music emerging in their own time.

[mwonter]

Sorry to see the den go, not that many trackers left and this was the most reliable one I experienced. Many fine tapers and transfer jockeys shared music here, and TTD's closing will leave a hole in online trading in general and for me personally.

Thanks to those tapers and uploaders whom I hope I haven't seen the last of, and thanks to the staff here that made that sharing possible.

[creolefreak]

Thank you very much

[Jim Ignatowski]

Thank you ! I was introduced to so much amazing music thanks to this site. Very sorry to see it go

[SilkTat2]

Sad News indeed, been one of my daily things to check for so long now!!!! Not going to know what to do!!!! THANK YOU to all involved in keeping this running for so long!!!!!

[kingrue]

Well damn this really sucks. As far as I’m concerned there is no other websites to use. So my torrenting days are over. TTD has been great I’m gonna miss it. Thanks for being there. I’ve been here since 2014 and posted 3000 Torrents. It was a lot of fun while it lasted. Now I have to find a new hobby cheers adios

[doobieblood]

Thank You!

[LDLang]

So many great shows found here and some I even attended myself.
One of the last shows I attended was recorded and uploaded here.
The person must have practically been sitting next to me. I couldn't tell.

[juxtiphi]

Thank You Lynne, this place will be missed.

[lv3lv]

Where to now ??? :eek3: :( :hmm: :headbang2 :confused: :thanks:

[flamestripes]

You miss us already. Thanks

[alphabet]

Thanks for keeping the site running as long as you have! Hard to believe it's been 18 years...

[Seth01]

A very sad day indeed. Very grateful for everything over the last 15 years I've been a member. Thank you & all the best.

[jackjack77777777]

A heartfelt thanks for all the good work all these years!

[strophob]

thanks very much for making all the fine recordings available!!
we will miss the trader's Den!!
all the best to you in the future!!
and good luck with whats coming up!!
:)

[Ruisma]

Thanks for everything

[gibbering]

Sad news indeed, but your logic is impeccable. It's been a great 15 year run; thanks for
everything !

[grateful_c2d]

Thanks to all for the great music !

[cpscps]

Damn. Thank you to the admins, tapers, uploaders, and everyone else who contributed to this site. I'll miss it.:kat:

[dutchbird]

Sorry to see you go; it's been fun.

[TomPaine56]

Sorry To See You Go ... another 7 years would be 25th ...

[marinus]

Sad news... Although I found most of the concerts I wanted elsewhere, it was nice to have TTD for bands and venues that weren't allowed elsewhere, and for uploaders who had lost their upload-priviliges elsewhere...
Thanks a lot to all who have kept this site running for all these years!

[Lockheed]

I've been around for 17 of those years....really hard to believe it's been that long!!!
But I guess my beard being grey is a sign that time passes more quickly than you think.
Thank you for all the wonderful shows I've heard thru you people.
Sorry to see it go but as a very wise man once said...all things must pass...
Enjoy a good long life and I'll see you down at the rock n roll show!!!

:clap:

[davebowman]

I don't know what to say, I don't know how to say it....
Other than 'Thank You'
Thank you from the bottom of my heart, for the wonderful years and the wonderful music.

Thank You, one and all.

TheTradersDen will never be forgotten.

[metalmadtom]

Awww man! Thank you everyone

[hj3009]

Many, many thanks, but that'll be a sad birthday for me at the end of the month!

[helmes]

Thank you all for the music and the hard work! I will miss this site a lot!
Cheers from Germany!

[richdegroot]

You're not going to love me anymore??

[richdegroot]

All kidding aside, thank you guys for everything, gonna miss this for sure...

All the best!!

[leiper]

Sorry to hear the news. I'm relatively new but have felt privileged to use the site.
To the site-runners, good luck in the future.
John.

[bellapintura]

Sad news, indeed! Thanks for everything.

[surfling]

A huge THANK YOU to everyone that helped to keep TTD running for so many years.

I'll miss this place.

:cheers:

:clap:

:wave:

[A-l-l-a-n-o-n]

Sad to read.
Thanks a lot what you guys have done for the trading community over the past 18 years

[Soreballs]

Wow, this is sad news! Thanks to admin and the mod team for keeping the site going for so long :cheers:

The site will sorelybally be missed :bop:

[gandydancer]

I can't thank you enough for your years of hard work. TTD will be greatly missed in my daily routine, but never forgotten as I enjoy the awesome collection of music you have helped me collect. All the best!

[tobytime]

This is sad, but I guess all things must pass. TTD has been a gold mine for me over the last few years. I've found some really good stuff here that I haven't found anywhere else, including some things that you for various reasons can't upload to some other well known bootleg sites/trackers. I've done my best to seed some of the recordings I've downloaded from this place.
To the people running the site and all the uploaders, a big THANK YOU for all your efforts through the years!

[nausearockpig]

Sad news indeed, thank you for such a great site and all the work you've done for the community.

All the best.

[raggedboy]

Thanks for all those years!

[artlazarus]

So Grateful for everything (RIP Jerry). Seems like a good time to shut it down (RIP Gil Scott-Heron). Very little original music of good quality since COVID hit (RIP John Prine). RIP TTD.

[Yassou]

Thanks for all you've done!

[nutzrocker]

Understandable but sad all the same.

I would like to thank everyone involved in making this such a great place to be.

[chevy1989]

Dang, you have to be kidding...been on TTD since 2005. All the best take care all of you :wave:

[Digam11]

WOW, so sorry to hear this. Thanks sooooo much to all you folks have done over the years to put the shows out there.

[ncc1701d]

Thanks everyone for all the great music over the years. I will miss this place. :(

[Absinthe]

Many thanks for all your efforts (and those of all the admins) over the years...

Very much appreciated!

[AlexPhoenix]

I am heartbroken to hear this news.
I have been a member since November 2004 and regard this as the best torrent site with the best-designed interface.
Ironically, it is running really smoothly today after recent hiccups!

Would there be any possibility of someone else taking over the site?
I'm sure there would be plenty of volunteers, and a fundraiser would no doubt produce a good return. I, for one, would be glad to contribute funds and time.

Meanwhile, my thanks go to you, Lynne, and alll the others who have helped run this fine site during the past 18 years.

You will be sadly missed!

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[AlexPhoenix]

Welcome to our newest member, Smerpp


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Wow! Smerpp is member #451318. Quite an achievement.

[Dan_Rocker56!]

Thank you for all the great year's of music. The Dime is still going but they don't allow some artist i am interested in banned!!! Keep Rocking Peace!!!

[alminn]

Sad to hear but understand. I will always fondly remember this place as a great site where these great tapers shared their work with all of us.

Thank you!!

[kinged8th]

Well this sucks! Thanks for the ride and best wishes to everyone here.

[Crazedracer]

Sad to see this, but I literally have a lifetime of listening from this site. Glad for your existence and love of sharing the music. Sad to see you all go. Enjoy the break from making this work for 18 years.

[borobri]

Thanks for the music and the forums. Learned a lot and laughed a lot reading them,

Take care and all the best for whatever the future holds

Bri..

[chevy1989]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9JoFKlaZ0

[barrydc]

Thank you all who have worked so hard to maintain this site and getting some great music to all! Job well done!

[nilssound]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dcbw4IEY5w

[deadluvva]

The joy you all have brought me over the years is immeasurable. Much love and respect to anyone involved with this site. Oh you will be missed.
Thanks for the music and great conversation.

[sicklovesong05]

What a bummer. I know this is selfish of me, because I am not an admin that is trying to fix everything all the time to keep it going, but I loved this site because I could post everything I recorded and not have to worry about certain bands not allowed, etc. I really enjoyed sharing all my music on here and intended on starting my series back up on here. I will miss not having TTD to look forward to daily looking for what's new and sharing my recordings. The selfish part of me wishes you'd just keep it going and dedicate your time as you have, but I really understand. I'm gonna miss this site a lot! :wave::clap:

What are you talking about? You haven't shared anything in years. You've been hoarding.

[jaman57]

All I can say is that time moves on, but thank you for providing this opportunity for all of us. It was always appreciated! Good luck to all!

[mr breeze]

wow, this sucks. its like losing contact with alot of good friends all at once. Thanks! to you U2Lynne! for keeping the site going as long as you could!
thanks to the moderators for keeping things cool, from devolving into chaos, which it could have...
thanks to all the tapers, like lynne said, youre my heroes, too.
and thanks to the sharers! for sharing all the goodies and rarities and
thanks to ALL the members who share their knowledge, experiences and care for one another.
this sucks, but i know all things must pass.
i've shared stuff on a few different sites, dime, hunger city, all along the watchtower (if that's the name of the german site with all the Dylan shows) but this one, TTD, is the most fun and rewarding because of the members here, the various forums and the way we can bullshit around and share the comradarie with other crazy music freaks, which is no minor thing, imho.
anyway, its been a fun 8 or so years for me.
thanks everybody! happy trails!
brother george

[hugofuguzev]

Well, damn.

It's been a helluva run- best live music trading site on the planet bar none:thumbsup

Thanks to Lynne and the rest of the mods for putting up with us goddamn lunatics all these years, it's been great!:lol4:

[UrbanSurfer]

What a well written post U2Lynne. Thank you for the explanation about the systems' status. There must've been a lot of emotion (kept out) to keep it on point and easy to understand the reasoning behind closing down.

Thanks for letting me be a part of this fine site. TTD always went deeper than other places with obscure shows, hard to find artists. I found a bunch of stuff here that was as satisfying as browsing a record store. Like a friendly neighborhood tavern closing, this will leave a vacancy that may not be filled.

As I listen to the massive amount of music at hand, I'll have a kynd thought for the folks who helped me acquire it all. Thanks TTD

[Peto]

Thanks to all the great tapers, uploaders and admins for runniung this awesome sit for so long. I got hundreds of great shows here and will miss it.

[BertoGE]

Really thanks... 17 years with you...

[daddyray]

thanks for all the turn ons. TTD will be missed.

[theescapingdrifter]

Oh no! Is there nothing that we can do? What bad news! :(:(

[texasjackson]

Thank you so much for TTD site!! I have loved it and will be sad to see it go.

[RammsteinJon]

can't believe TTD was only a few years old when I came around. I've tended to use Dime more often, but I appreciated the community aspect that this forum provided that Dime lacks. bunch of cool dudes here.


~so long and thanks for all the tapes~

[Kikehendrix]

Thank you so much for everything! Rock on!

[town cryer]

So sad to see TTD go but it was a great run.

Thank you for 18 years of live music downloads, especially for some of the under the radar artists I only saw here.

[ronco]

Long Live The Trader's Den
The Trader's Den is dying.
It was a great run

[jpeace]

As one of a small group of prolific tapers I feel I will have to retire now. I have nowhere left to post things, and my online archive is now going away. I put my shows here thinking I could retrieve them from here until the end of time. I will miss the opportunity to share all my work with you. I can't really think of a place to put all this stuff these days. I'm not paying for enough space to host it all as links, and there aren't any good torrent sites left. You are breaking up a unique community. Shame on you

[Vinegarjoe]

Would like to think you Lynne for this great site. One of my first stops everyday. You can never have enough great music. That's what you and the people who recorded shows and shared with all of us. Only been here 4 years but will really miss you as part of my day.

Happy Trails to you until we meet again.

[jerryholmes]

As one of a small group of prolific tapers I feel I will have to retire now. I have nowhere left to post things, and my online archive is now going away. I put my shows here thinking I could retrieve them from here until the end of time. I will miss the opportunity to share all my work with you. I can't really think of a place to put all this stuff these days. I'm not paying for enough space to host it all as links, and there aren't any good torrent sites left. You are breaking up a unique community. Shame on you

Buy TTD out and run it yourself. Sounds like a lot of fun to keep maintaining tech from before Facebook and iPhones were things. You could always post your shows to Usenet newsgroups. Even the Pirate Bay is a shell of itself these days.


BRB. Going to write an article about how millennials and zoomers are killing BitTorrent sites.

[Bruschi]

How typical of a nouveau, self-righteous copyright extremist with uninformed and nonsensical freedom of speech citations--a hyperconsumer and not an artist obviously--to expect someone else to do all the hard work and spend all the money, to whine and spew negativity at first opportunity, take no lead whatsoever in fomenting new solution when the old go the way of all things, and invoke shame upon those who magnanimously and generously did generate solutions for nigh two decades.

Absolutely classic. No wonder things just keep getting more fraught and suckier. Thank you, haven't heard a "take my ball and go home" in a few days.

[jpeace]

Buy TTD out and run it yourself. Sounds like a lot of fun to keep maintaining tech from before Facebook and iPhones were things. You could always post your shows to Usenet newsgroups. Even the Pirate Bay is a shell of itself these days.


BRB. Going to write an article about how millennials and zoomers are killing BitTorrent sites.

Yeah I get it, but I'm old, and prefer the old school tech stick around for all us fogies to do things the way we're used to. I've never even seen nor understand Usenet, and no no no to TPB. That's not a place for quality bootlegs. Dime is of little use to me because they delete the shows once inactive, so only have a rolling archive of current torrents.

I'm also bummed because I have about 100 shows I've yet to post

haven't heard a "take my ball and go home" in a few days.
My ball has been given back to me and the other kids are leaving

[nipote]

Very very sad :(

[AlexPhoenix]

As one of a small group of prolific tapers I feel I will have to retire now. I have nowhere left to post things, and my online archive is now going away. I put my shows here thinking I could retrieve them from here until the end of time. I will miss the opportunity to share all my work with you. I can't really think of a place to put all this stuff these days. I'm not paying for enough space to host it all as links, and there aren't any good torrent sites left. You are breaking up a unique community. Shame on you

"Shame on you"?

That's pretty harsh.

I, too, am upset and saddened by this news.
Lynne has been running this site, unpaid, as a labour of love, for 18 years.
I hope she may reconsider, or that an angel or angels with the necessary skills may step in and take up the reins.

She is not obliged to provide free hosting for your torrent files.
You could always re-upload some to DIME or LL.

Meanwhile, shame on YOU for your outburst.

:nono: :mad: :grr:


EDIT:
Dime is of little use to me because they delete the shows once inactive, so only have a rolling archive of current torrents.
If you want torrents on DIME to remain active, keep seeding 'em! Inactive torrents here on TTD are removed, too!

[Bud-man]

Thanks for 18 yrs!!, best site on the Internet!!

[daspyknows]

Sad news but I get it. Running a site like this is a lot of work and is only a labor of love. Most people don't contribute anything and a few contribute everything. Wish everyone who put in the effort the best. Those who have the new content will still have it and will still share it. Just harder to find it like the old days before torrenting.

[John Webster 1]

"I read the news today, oh boy"
.

[nolajay]

Thanks for everything over the years.

Now I need to figure out how to archive some of the comment threads from here. Like some of the hilarious Freezer ones.

[borobri]

Thanks for the music and the forums !!
Learned a lot and laughed a lot reading them
All the best to whatever you do in the future

Bri..

[psychocaniac]

Very sad news. Thanks for all of the hard work and sacrifices over the years. I would have many fewer hard drives if TTD had not existed, but will have many years of music to listen to because it did.

[MOOSE]

Thanx so much for the 18 years of hard work keeping things going, i will miss this great site very much

[pagey_17]

Great news

[m2165]

thank you

[HardyWeinberg]

Thanks for everything, I will really miss this place.

[Dan33185]

Would there be any possibility of someone else taking over the site?
I'm sure there would be plenty of volunteers, and a fundraiser would no doubt produce a good return. I, for one, would be glad to contribute funds and time.

Thought the same thing, I'm sure there would be someone who would love to take over the site, and a fundraiser would be a great idea. Hopefully these options were considered or will be considered before the end of the month. Either way, this has been a great site, and was important in my introduction to live recordings and torrenting in general.

[gonzalo_110]

Thank you deeply for all your work, The Trader's Den is so important in making me love music even more! Best regards!

[DialUpSufferer]

Thank you all so much for The Trader's Den and everything it offers. Your meticulous documenting of lineage and preserving these recordings in the highest quality is a service for future generations. It kindled my love of live Zeppelin and the hobby of taping shows, even if I was downloading FLAC files for months on end on my parents' dial-up connection. Truly dark days, but days I look back on fondly now. Godspeed everyone, this lurker wishes you well.

[cmaz]

Would there be any possibility of someone else taking over the site?
I'm sure there would be plenty of volunteers, and a fundraiser would no doubt produce a good return. I, for one, would be glad to contribute funds and time.

Thought the same thing, I'm sure there would be someone who would love to take over the site, and a fundraiser would be a great idea. Hopefully these options were considered or will be considered before the end of the month. Either way, this has been a great site, and was important in my introduction to live recordings and torrenting in general.

We can do a Traders Den Collectible T-Shirt! Everybody send me your money. We'll make a ton. i swear

[calvi]

Very sad news! Thanks to all the people involved, for all the energy you put all along these years in this project. See ya

[sabbatology]

This is an April Fools thing, right?

Hey it's September... NOOOOOOooooooo........

Thanks for everything TTD!

[Shiffer]

This is hard to take but understandable. I had a great time here, i love it because of the gems of music that was shared here. Gonna miss you really. Thank you everyone involved in TTD!

[Kiek]

Thank you. I am speechless but I have to accept this. Thank you again.

[gretzky99]

Damn Damn Damn and a great big FUCK YOU to ALL

[bellham]

How do I waste time at work now?

[jayel4444]

All is said and done. Thank you for the music and for more than 17 years.

I understand your reason to stop, but it still makes me incredibly sad. Besides the good music I found here, it also takes away part of my daily routine.

This place was very special and I will also miss it because here things were possible that were not possible elsewhere.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed over the years to making this a very special place. I will miss it and all of you.

I think that many would be happy if you could start all over again with your knowledge and experience.

Bye......

I'm sad to say, it's time to go
But until we meet again along the road
Remember this on your journey home
When you hear the thunder roar, you're not alone
We wish you well
We wish you well
In times of trouble, may your heart be strong
We wish you well
We wish you well
Until we meet again
We wish you well.

(David Coverdale)

[bdf]

Thank you for everything. :tunes:

[syncopatico]

Sad News! :(
Thanks for letting me join here in 2007! TTD was the first torrent tracker i was a member of.
Learned all (the little!) i know about torrenting flac files/uploading/downloading from first struggling to get things to work here! ;) Will always cherish that.
(& thanks for all the "love" given in the forums/Lounge! :wave: )

[Burnout_Jeff]

Summer flies and Trader's Den dies , and the world grows dark and mean ...

Thanks to all who put this together behind the scenes , it's been almost a 14 year ride for me , much obliged ...

[manbearpig]

Thanks for keeping this great community running for 18 years, despite all the issues and obstacles.
Much appreciation and respect to every member who took the time to tape, upload and reseed live recordings.
It was a pleasure to be a member of TTD.

[co9ol]

Thank you so much!

[Bud-man]

what if everyone could pitch in what they can afford, even $5 each maybe owner could upgrade her server

[Lockheed]

A very wise man once said...all things must pass...
I've been along for about 17 years out of the 18 and I will truly miss TTD when it's gone.
Thank you for everything and I'll see you all at the next rock n roll show!

[dankone]

Wow.
That sucks......
But thanks for everything.
Can't tell you how much I appreciate everything I've gotten from here.

Sharing the Groove.
Totally forgot about that place until it was just mentioned.
Good stuff.

[MusicWizard04]

Wait! Before this site closes, can someone please send me the audio files of this old inactive torrent, if anybody had gotten them on April 25, 2008, please?

http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=57477&referrerid=446450

You can send me the audio files at [email protected] via Google Drive, WeTransfer, FileFactory, Mediafire, or whatever online tool works for you.

[upperdecker]

I feel compelled to chime in with my thanks and sincere gratitude for the years of enjoyment this site has brought me. Checking in with TTD first thing in the morning is something I have done virtually every single day since 2005-04-08. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, there will be a hole in my life starting October 1. I just feel sad, hard to explain to anyone who isn't a long time member of this community or others like it. The only other thing I can compare this to is the day what.cd disappeared. So long, and thanks for all the fish...

[OldNeumanntapr]

Sorry to see this site go down. Thanks to Dennis and Mike (for working on), and John for uploading my shows that I have recorded. I was never able to upload, or download, anything myself but I had friends do it for me. I enjoyed seeing the comments from people about my recordings and I liked seeing what people thought about them.

I'm always looking for David Lindley shgows, and Leo Kottke shows, that I don't have.

My etree list is:
https://etreedb.org/Oldneumanntapr

I can send and recieve files through WeTransfer.com

[email protected]

My email is on my list.

OldNeumanntapr-

[brenna]

This is really sad news. Thanks to all the tapers and TTD for making so many shows available to fans all around the world.

[theescapingdrifter]

Such sad sad news this AM. TTD, RIP

[boneyard]

thanks for all the shows.

[Jackstraw_1969]

Thanks to all who made this site what it is! End of an Era!

[harryh]

:(

Sad to hear this, I've been here for most of the 18 years and have uploaded a load of my torrents, some of which were banned by Dime, so it's a real shame it's closing down.

I kinda guessed something was up when there were problems logging on and moving between pages which I put down to my PC being a pile of junk!!!:lol4:

Anyway, thanks to everyone who created and kept this playing going in all that time, U2Lynne, Five, etc.. :thumbsup:

You've done a great job and will be sadly missed.

[jon-fin]

I am sad about this, really really sad, but maybe I'll use the time it saves me more wisely.

[oufti]

Thanks for everything ! Thanks for your hard work.

[donohuer]

How

[donohuer]

Will

[donohuer]

I...

[donohuer]

crack

[donohuer]

the

[donohuer]

top

[donohuer]

twenty

[donohuer]

five?

[starchild63]

Very sad to hear this really love this site thank you all for all of the work and love you have put into it

[mmiikk]

THANKS!
THANKS!
THANKS!
SEE YOU SOON!

[LambsWool]

Ah, first HRH sheds her mortal coil and now this. Thanks for being brilliant, Traders Den. I'm going to miss you.

[zootz]

But I still haven't received my STG t-shirt!
Thank you for an enjoyable 18 years. Thanks for bringing the art of tape trading into the digital realm. It was nice not having to wait for the 30 tape package to arrive (if it arrived at all) with, at the very least, 2nd gen copies. You will be missed but thanks for the ride

[tricko]

i've visited here almost every day since i have known about you, and felt at home since day one. of course i'm gonna miss you dearly, but i'm oh so grateful for your generous sharing and continuous encouragement for musical knowledge over the years! you made many of us better. much better. thank you.

[Rafael de la Vega]

Many, many thanks for this great love affair!!

[11223344]

Thank you so much for hosting and all the shared music~~

[rdonahe]

Bummer! Thanks to all for making this a great site!

[zoso69]

:cry: :cry: :cry:
Thank you for everything this site and the generous uploaders have given me over the 16 years I've been coming here. And not forgetting the laughs I had eating the popcorn in the legendary Freezer vs the mob thread all those years ago...
http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=23718&highlight=FREEZER&page=1

[zoso69]

We can do a Traders Den Collectible T-Shirt! Everybody send me your money. We'll make a ton. i swear
Now you got away with that on BootCity, I won't be fooled twice :D

[Robinbrevard]

WHAT HE SAID! :boohoo:

HI,
So sad to learn about the end of the adventure of The Traders' Den, but also so happy to have had the opportunity to find so many great concerts during all these years on this site and to have been able to build up a collection of concerts that make me happy!
thank you from southwestern France and good luck to all.

[RadioTorrent]

Thanks to everyone for all the great music over the years! Long live The Traders Den huzzah! :clap::rock::rockin::thanks:

[jerryholmes]

Can an archive of the site from the last day be donated to archive.org? Get a gofundme going for the cost of the hard drive(s) and shipping. Their Wayback machine doesn't archive the "Where we go to play ....." section since it requires a log in.

[johnhell]

Thanks for everything, including the fish.

[johnhell]

I would say my weekly radio show on http://radiovalencia.fm (Mondays 6-8PM PDST) would not be nearly as good without TTD. I play live bootlegs each week at that time, many from this site. Thanks you for being such a wonderful resource.

[ledwhofloyd]

In addition to the above other torrent sites mentioned, I would like to plug DC++ hubs as another way to share live unofficial lossless music. Echoes hub for example: https://www.echoeshub.com/

[Mint Condish]

Thank you so much.
:cry:

[srb151]

Sad news today. Joined in 2004, have made this site a part of my daily online routine nearly every day since. Thank you to everyone who helped make this site a success over the past 18 years.

[bobv51]

Thanks for all the music.

[Horace]

thanks for 14 years of great music! I've loved being a part of this
Cheers,
Horace

[metro_cubo]

Metro Cubo has a broken heart...

[sewolawen73]

I guess everything has its shelf life.

Thank you for all the work you have done in providing treasures to us music lovers.

[seasprite]

Many thanks to all the folks who made this happen. The music shared here was such a gift and brought so many fond memory for me.i stop in every day to find something new. I learned the gift of music is the best gift of all. Thanks to every one that made my life a happer one.You will be truly missed.
seasprite :wtf: :disbelief :ah:

[micheleulysse]

VERY sad! thanks a lot!

[nootin]

I hate to add my bummed-outness to the bummed-outness and make anybody feel worse, and I'm so glad this existed but holy smokes am I bummed out - I don't even know where to go to find Netflix suggestions now, it's like I'm fucked on so many levels I don't know where to start lol.

Where, where in the fuck at 61 will I find a bunch of ppl like The Lounge/Piano Bar area? It was like tuning in to what's happening with the people I hung with in the back of the school bus fuckin' off and for me, that's a good feeling that got rarer in life as time passed, so thanks gang, I WILL honestly miss you's! :wave:

[starman714]

then STFU n00b! :stfu:

:wave:


Honestly you guys were beautiful, who else could do this? Who else has done this and could it ever be done again?

Doubtful, this made a cool slice of history all it's own, thanks so much! <3

[bigaudio]

very sad to hear the news. Many thanks for all the work and dedication it took to run this site for so long. I will miss it dearly.

[Rockitgurl]

Um, can just the "The Lounge/Piano Bar area" be 'maintained' easier/separate because there are no torrents? It won't be the same but we could still 'visit' with our "friends", just thinking out loud... :wave:

[king0porn]

Thx for the memories man, seriously you guys F’ing rocked it when the spineless bastards over at DaD couldn’t grow a set if they were given a truckload of F’ing cow manure!
Closing??
How am I ever going to bash my stump without looking at Lynne’s F’ing perfect rump??
This is F’ing gawdawful man but all good things do indeed come to an end (not including Lynne’s beautiful F’ing backside).
A F’ing HUGE THANK YOU to all involved with this site for giving it all you had and rocking my F’ing world with the best F’ing music ‘east of Ron Jeremy’s MF’ing crank’!
God Bless you guys!
This is really F’ing sad.....
Have a great life and CHEERS!!!!
King0porn,
Aka Steve Rasta Cahill.

[NE169]

Thanks a bunch is wholly inadequate for the 17(?!?!??) years I've been here, I've always thought that if the interwebs went down tomorrow, that I'd hope to have enough on my hard drives to keep myself entertained, and TTD played a huge part in me acquiring some stellar music - for that I'll always be grateful!!

[loris123]

Thanks for everything, I will miss TTD

[BCWolf]

Well, that's truly sad news -- i found things here i never found anywhere else (eg. Sparks), and truly don't know where to go look next.

Thanks for all the work, moderators, and for all the music, sharers!!

== wolf

[leykis101]

I am eternally grateful for the chance to share my recordings to the world, (it was 9 years ago I upgraded to my current equipment recently).

It won't be the same without ttd. I will still record and it will be somewhere

[TiredBorn]

Very Thanks for your work and effort !!!

[Metal Up Your Ass]

Sorry to see the site go. Y'all are great, and greatly appreciated.

[cafc1962]

Thank you TTD and all the uploaders for everything

[Schatzie604]

Sad news indeed!!
Thanks to all who have shared and posted all of these years. It's been a great run but all good things must come to an end unfortunately :(

[marko101]

Can't Thank everyone involved enough !!
Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, but hopefully the music you have shared will live forever!
MANY THANKS AGAIN!!

[Macgunner]

Great times! Thanks for all this years!!!

[Timezone]

I have the best music, It cannot be purchased, Through the years I've collected many a great show and my heartfelt thanks to all who made this possible through their efforts. My share ratio is 99% It is really hard to maintain a good ratio I must add. I managed to upload like 2.6 terabytes. I tried not to ditch the last person downloading. Thanks for the pleasure you all brought to me.

[thesabman]

Very sad news. Thank You Lynne & everyone involved for keeping this going for so long. Your efforts were greatly appreciated.

[whotrader]

I am so grateful for TTD, it was a great run. I am very thankful that TTD allowed me to share my obscene, whotrader archive with everyone here. I have uploaded over 10 TB and downloaded over 1 TB of great shows since 2009.

TTD has been a part of my daily life since then, so it will be hard to adjust to a life after TTD. Thank you Lynne for providing such an important tool to share the music. To say you will be sorely missed is an understatement. God bless you all !!

[tenvs7th1]

Thank you for everything!

[ZOMBIWOOF]

Fuuuuuuuuuuu.... greatly appreciate everything you've achieved here, couldn't have been easy. All the best to y'all ghosts moving forward. You will be missed

[peach]

Truly hate to see Trader's Den bite the dust. You've managed a great site, thank you for all of the great music you've enabled us to share! Trader's Den will be missed!

[Johnky]

Devastated.

Its really a sombre moment.

Thank You.

[Cameron McMenemy]

Sad to see you go. All the best. Been a great website

[icebox]

Sad news, but thanks for everything.

[ledwhofloyd]

Time to reach back and circulate some King Biscuit Flower Hour shows while we still can.

[Bean0202]

You will be sorely missed for sure.

[jimmyhowell]

I am SO totally bummed!
I wish to thank you for the many, many, many hours, days, and years I've enjoyed trading on your amazing site. (Safely too) Best of luck, and take care.

P.S. I love you more lintoni

[AidanS]

:wave:Sorry to see you go, I have discovered so much here, it's been fantastic. Thank you.

[maccafan076]

Thank you for the years. I've found quite a few nice things here over the years. Best of luck going forward. I saw some members asking about moving to other trackers. How about

http://electricladyland.synology.me/index.php

or Archive.org?

[JayDub]

I did not approve this.

[Igemo75]

Thank you and farewell!

Will Freezer's rants be preserved one way or another? :D

[rhombus]

It has been great!

Excellent group!

Thanks to all!

[General Electric]

Gee... Thank you so much. This site has been really great and it was here I got my start with internet music collecting. I downloaded terabytes and there was always more. I haven't been around much in recent years, but I have always considered it to be the best torrent site of it's type. It saddens my heart to say goodbye to an old friend. Fare The Well. :wave:

[gino03]

Thanks for the great site I'm going to miss my daily trolling.

[Pernath]

I am saddened by the news that TTD will be closing. Last week we lost the Queen, and now TTD... two pillars of many people's lives gone...

I've had a great run since signing up with TTD in October 2007. Through TTD I've come to know many artists I would otherwise have never heard of, and got ample exposure to the live magic of the artists that I did know.

In any case, the reasons for shutting down TTD are understood and appreciated. I once ran a Shawn Lane tribute site - a job that quickly became untenable due to complicated software and server security issues. I can only imagine what it takes to run a tracker site like TTD!

In any case, a BIG thanks to all who've made TTD possible - and indeed to all who have been sharing all this brilliant music over the years.

Vale TTD.

[yeselp]

It's sad but it might be my salvation. In all seriousness, you guys are owed a MONSTER THANKS for all you've done. Adieu.

[yeselp]

It's sad but it also might be my salvation. In all seriousness, you guys deserve a MONSTER THANK YOU for all you've done. Adieu.

[Tracybjazz]

Thanks to Lynne, the TDD crew (coders, mods, etc), tapers and uploaders . . . . this is a sharing site that I will sincerely miss. The people are nice; the rules are common sense and my musical horizons have been expanded beyond anything I expected. There is music here that I can't find anywhere else. . . . . change is hard for most of us and I heartily salute the team as they've made the hard decisions to move on. When one door closes . . . .

[jimdandy]

Thanx for all your dedication to let other people fill up their drives with so much great music.:wave:

[Jerseyguy1957]

Truly a sad day. Thank you for all you've done for this many years.:cool:

[bendywendy]

Farewell to TTD, and thanks to all involved in the site. And of course, thanks to everyone that uploaded here. In particular, i have a lot less available harddrive space due to stellar contributors like dandrew and DoctorZap.

TTD will be missed, but life goes on. Thanks for the music.

[toomanycds]

Many thanks for the time, effort, and generosity to all involved in creating and sustaining this awesome resource. All of you have enabled many of us to hear great quality music, discover new bands, and rethink why lossless music needs purity standards. My grateful appreciation to all involved.

[evaporatus]

Vaya con dios!

[guizillabr]

Wow.. tears! Many many many thanks and cheers from Brasil
TTD community is like an old friend at my home.. Thanks a lot

[Cat Daddy]

It's a mystery to :kat: Daddy and thanks to all for loving :kat: Daddy all of these years.

[hirshi]

Thanks for all the snacks

[syrinx2112]

Thank you so much for the years of providing this space for all of us. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to be part of it. Thanks to everyone who shared and to everyone who seeded!:rock:

[asdf29]

Ah bummer. BUMMER!

Joined in 2007, checked the site weekly for goodies (and found many).

Wish there was some alternatives - freeze the site as an archive for viewing-only (reading old Freezer posts), hand the keys over to some motivated volunteer, ah fuck i dont know! Ha ha.

[edhead70]

Thank you for the 18 years!!! to everyone that was ever involved hats off to ya!! .

[Sir GH]

Very sad news to hear of the bar closing down, but very understandable. In addition to the reasons given, no doubt it is a tremendous expense to run this place, and thus such a day was inevitable.

Thanks for the years of joy. Hell, even just for A/B Road - having that as a reference made watching the Get Back documentary that much more enjoyable.

This is a place I will tell people about for years to come. You cats who ran this place should be mighty proud of what you achieved here.

[Sir GH]

Thanks for everything over the years.

Now I need to figure out how to archive some of the comment threads from here. Like some of the hilarious Freezer ones.

YES please - Freezer's Revenge absolutely must be preserved for all eternity. It is without a doubt one of the greatest things ever produced on the internet, on par with the Picolax thread:

https://singletrackworld.com/2009/02/the-picolax-thread-returns

[shuggie]

im sorry that the page is closing, its been an amazing page..ive taped before but not uploaded cos im shite at technolgy. i have donated ...listen... to the admins moderaters youuse have done brilliant job.....long live TTD.....aslso so as ye know that post about shuggie with nearly 40000 views it wasnt me ....take care god bless ye all

[johnieappel]

Thank you to everyone involved in making this site so awesome all these years. It will be sorely missed!

[Leslie_Mountain]

Everything's been said already, so just a big "Thank You!" to all involved in creating, maintaining and moderating TTD site, and to those who shared live music from their collections. So long TTD.

[Gibbo]

Thanks for everyone's work over the years

[Lobito]

just leave it as is, if you need to download qbitorrent then download qbitorrent.
or put it as it was before, yes a bit slow but it was fine.

[housequake2011]

But all good things, they say, never last
Thank you.
Thanks y'all

[geriberi]

An extremely sad day to hear this news. Thanks for everything. You will be missed.:(

[thrules]

That's some bad news.

The complete archive and many bootlegs will be lost forever and never be seen again.

I hope the uploaders and users will switch to the same site so that the comunity stays together.

Thanks to everyone, discovered a lot of good music here.

[StripeyWayne]

Confused. I've just downloaded a 3gb torrent. I see seeds, I see peers, I'm uploading smoothly, the site is running faultlessly for the last few days.

Why must TTD close?

[jpeace]

That's some bad news.

The complete archive and many bootlegs will be lost forever and never be seen again.

I hope the uploaders and users will switch to the same site so that the comunity stays together.

Thanks to everyone, discovered a lot of good music here.

There's no site to switch to. I've looked. Nothing as strict on quality, nor as small of a NAB list. Friends for years are going to lose touch and everything here will be lost to time. A hugely important part of my life and those of many tapers/uploaders will be lost forever. Thousands of people are now essentially homeless
May those in charge of this decision die slowly and painfully and burn in Hell forever after

[Homebrew101]

1st the queen and now TTD??

I blame Putin! My boss is gonna wonder how I became more efficient at work.

Thanks to all who toiled to keep TTD running and everyone else that shared all this wonderful music (well except the Dead shit :lol: )

[zoso69]

May those in charge of this decision die slowly and painfully and burn in Hell forever after
Jeez, that's a bit strong. I've loved your releases (I'm assuming the 'resequenced and remastered' official output I've seen on Demonoid was yours).

[ElectricGypsy72]

In all the years I have been here, the thing that always kept me coming back was the diversity. As highlighted by the links you put at the bottom or your post, many of the sites I've seen are devoted to a band or style of music. Here was always a place I could come to, like any great music store. I never know what I would find, but I knew I would probably enjoy it.

You will be greatly missed, and fondly remembered.

Thank you