I was never much into downloading. My first attempt to store music on my computer was with "Brazil" performed by Geoff Muldaur from the movie soundtrack...

I was extracting the CD audio to wave on my work computer as a personal motivational tool. One of the programmers there said, "you really should try and convert that to MP3." This was in 1996 in believe.

It took me about two years to figure out how to do it...