Good old torrent bootlegs website DIME-a-dozen has just started their “freeloader” days today. It goes on until Jan 8th.
For those already registered, it’s a chance to get many R.E.M. bootlegs that were shared during the year, or at least a chance to improve your ratio.
My account got deleted. Sadly no way of recovering. No new registrations at present. 
I’m sorry for that. And it seems they only open for registration once in a while, after deleting a few accounts.
I’ve gone through account deletion a long time ago. DIME is famously difficult, because it always seems you download what you want, but everyone is faster than you and you can never get a good ratio by uploading in return. So I stopped using my account for a while (around 2007, I think) and it got deleted for bad ratio+inactivity. But of course. I couldn’t upload anything ever!
And then I made a new one and developed a sort of method for at least keeping a decent ratio now and then. And I think later they started doing these freeloader days around holiday time, so now I can download every R.E.M. bootleg during the year and heal my ratio during these two weeks.
I’m in the same boat as cliffonthemoon - DIME account lapsed over a decade ago. I’m looking for the shows I attended – anyone interested in old-fashioned trading?
I’m looking for:
1999-08-20 Tinley Park IL
2003-09-28 Auburn Hills MI
I’m also interested in pretty much anything from the Monster tour.
Here are the lossless things I have which don’t have a commercial release:
1980-05-30 - 40 Watt
1980-10-04 - 20th Century Boys Vol.2
1982-01-22 - File Under Kudzu
1983-07-07 - Larrys Hideaway
1983-09-30 - 20th Century Boys Vol.1
1983-11-09 - Elliot Mazer
1984-06-09 - Capital Theatre, Passaic, NJ
1984-06-27 - Seattle
1985-11-09 - CMJ Awards New York
1986-10-26 - Buffalo
1986-11-25
1987-05-24 - McCabe’s
1987-09-14 - Holland - Rapid Eye Movement
1988 February - Green Demos
1989-04-29-thru-30 Poets of the Wheat (disc 2)
1989-11-13 Atlanta (disc 1)
1989-11-13 Atlanta (disc 2)
1991-03-05 - Radio Songs
1991-03-13 - Poets of the Wheat (disc 1)
1998 Spring - UP demos
2001 Reveal Version 1 tracks
2001-10-23 - Crocodile Cafe (disc 1)
2001-10-23 - Crocodile Cafe (disc 2)
2005-02-25 - Sheffield Mini-Gig
2005-04-03 - Melbourne
2005-06-05 - Austria Soundcheck
2006-04-01 Athens GA
2007-06-30 - Olympia Theatre - Dublin - Night 1
2007-07-01 - Olympia Theatre - Dublin - Night 2
2007-07-03 - Olympia Theatre - Dublin - Night 3
2007-07-04 - Olympia Theatre - Dublin - Night 4
2007-07-05 - Olympia Theatre - Dublin - Night 5
Fanclub Singles 1988-1996
Fanclub Singles 1997-2004
In the Year 2525 - Covers
It’s R.E.M. Jim
Shiny Chatty People
I have this one. Will upload to MediaFire as soon as I get home.
Oh awesome!!
One ridiculously overpriced dinner later, here it is:
Grabbed it! Thank you! After 19 years, my memory of the Aerosmith bit (track 07) was pretty darn accurate. It’s so fun to hear this show again!