Twenty Thousand Hertz: How Napster Changed How We Think About Music

Posted inDesign Thinking
Thumbnail for Twenty Thousand Hertz: How Napster Changed How We Think About Music

PRINTCast: The PRINT Podcast Studio is a curated collection of cutting-edge podcasts we love about design, creativity, branding, books, and further subjects afield. Soon, we’ll have a dedicated digital listening room. In the meantime, we present Twenty Thousand Hertz from host Dallas Taylor—“a lovingly crafted podcast revealing the stories behind the world’s most recognizable and interesting sounds.”

The latest episode: “Napster.”

Here’s more from the Twenty Thousand Hertz team:

In less than two years, Napster became a global sensation … and then record labels and multi-platinum artists brought it crashing down. But in its short lifespan, Napster transformed our ideas about how we consume music, and how much we’re willing to pay for it. This story comes from the podcast Spectacular Failures.

Twenty Thousand Hertz is produced out of the studios of Defacto Sound