A note from KC

It certainly can't have escaped many folks attention that I closed The Crypt and Bolden's the other day in the wake of yet another spate of complaints and arguments over our choices of dl sites. I became so sick and tired of the whole mess that I was ready to call it quits and end this blog's 11 year run. Then something somewhat miraculous happened that has changed my mind - the primary party with whom grumpy and I were arguing actually came to my Chitlin Circuit blog and offered a sincere apology (something which has NEVER happened before!). A little while ago I posted the following advice at Chitlins... and I'm re-opening the blog and passing on that advice here

"Lately there has been a growing number of people getting hostile over choices of dl link providers and some peoples' inability to navigate them to get to the desired link. Most of these sites are something of a minefield to navigate; what appears to be the proper button often isn't and they frequently lead to areas that anti-virus and browser programs read as malware. Usually that is a false positive, but no one needs to take that chance of creating a mess they don't know how to eradicate. There IS, however, an easy solution to this frustrating situation (frustrating to both y'all AND me for different reasons).

I'm going to once more strongly suggest that you take this very easy solution that will prevent you from ever having to go to any of those dl sites ever again; the solution is a freeware program called jdownloader2. (Notice that I have put a link to the clean installers) The program is super easy to learn and all you will need to do is highlite the desired link and the program will show you the direct link and you can then tell it to run the download. Simple eh?

So here is my point, if you don't wish to take this advice then DO NOT come complaining to me about your problems dl-ing a post. I am, quite frankly, not interested."