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“Telling Lies” could be streamed via RealAudio or Shockwave, or downloaded as an MPEG file that, at CD quality, took around 45 minutes via a standard modem. “It’s astounding what people will put up with,” Jon Diamond, VP of the company N2K that ran Bowie’s site, later told ‘The New York Times.’

I remember downloading this. It was an mp2. 😁

I find it interesting that the different quality options include hardware requirements. Even decoding a compressed audio file then was hard work!