The search results were a graveyard of the 2010s. He clicked a link that promised a "Full Discography [320kbps]." The website looked like it hadn't been updated since the Sochi Olympics. Blue hyperlinked text vibrated against a gray background, surrounded by flashing banners promising "One Secret Trick to Lose Weight" and "Free Antivirus (100% Virus)."
The bar turned a sliver of green. 0.5%... 1.2%... Somewhere out there, a stranger was uploading 3.4 KB/s of "The Boss and the Secretary."
He didn't want to stream them. He wanted to own them. He wanted them sitting in a folder on his hard drive, neatly tagged, just like in the old days.
He opened a browser and typed the familiar incantation: