During the 2000s, a Shelby man leaked more than 2,000 albums onto peer-to-peer downloading networks, often weeks before their official release dates, according to Stephen Witt’s debut book. The author discusses this previously untold tale at Malaprop’s on Wednesday, June 17.
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