(Big Words) The Postal Service's Give Up turns ten

In the winter of 2001 along North America's far western boundary Jimmy Tamborello and Ben Gibbard sent each other burned CD-Rs of melody and music through the mail. Even at this advanced moment in human history, high speed Internet remained rare outside the confines of major corporations, colleges and universities. Two talented and obscure song writers would have to use the mail for uncompressed audio. This long distance demo music would become known as the project the Postal Service, and ...

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