Warez Theme Song by Mark Borle - better vocals

This is the best version of the song which I downloaded almost 20 years ago. The vocal track is different, sounds much better and I don't think that it is online anywhere anymore, Mark's website didn't even have this version.
That means there are three versions of this song - '97, '99, and this one which is '97 with better vocals.
Video taken from the '97 version on YT because it's quite good.

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From his site:
The Warez Song (1997)
This one had the #1 spot on MP3.com for the comedy section for a month or so. If there was one achievement my songs ever made, this would have to be it. I re-did this one in about 1999 or so, but I still get requests for this one (after I re-did it in 1999 or so), so here's the original 1997 version as well.

Lyrics:
The day I got hooked up to the mighty internet
I was hooked into a world that I'd never forget
Websites, chatrooms, IRC, and live video streams
Online multimedia that looked like LSD dreams

Then I got my hands on something called CuteFTP
I was told that I could have what I wanted for free
Went onto some guy's FTP, 1 to 4 ratio
upload my swap file and downloaded Super Mario

Then I heard of something called an MP3 player
Had something to do with music compression layer
Didn't give a damn about the facts given to me
Just wanted to download songs without buying the CD

Later I found Vivo movies compressed on the net
Downloaded one movie per night as much as I could get
Titanic took a couple more, but less for Wet and Wild
It was like Christmas every day and I was some rich man's child

But soon enough the downloads had to come straight back to me
Turns out it was the Feds who ran that awesome FTP
We're setting up a trap for all those online criminals
They said "fuck free speech it's corrupted our youth, it's all a load of bull"

One more game, one more app, one more serial, and one more crack
Warez are the only thing for me, hey now
One more game, one more app, one more serial, and one more crack
Could someone get the crack for Duke 3D

DCC something IRC gives to everyone
Need a crack for PaintShop Pro in seconds download's done
Stupid people buy domains with warez in the name
When they're shut down I am pissed off but they're the ones to blame

Quake 2 came out in Denmark two days 'fore the USA
but thanks to FTPing I had my copy in a day
Unreal was just that: unreal on my bandwidth supply
Took three weeks to get it, it sucked, and I asked myself why

Got a CD burner with just two uses in mind
To download, copy, and burn everything that I could find
And sell the disks to friends for only seven bucks a pop
Five bucks for the disk, two bucks for my time, seven bucks for the Photoshop

Pisses me off when I'm searching for something that's hard to find
I find a link to get a copy, but Netscape is blind
Says can't find file or something lame which doesn't help me out
But three days later I get it and it removes all my doubts

Cops find out, it's the second time, this time I go to jail
Not only am I broke, no PC, but Warez plans they have all failed
I'm sitting in the slammer, gonna warez me a great big Ginsu knife
And I'll be here for the next ten years, can I warez a wife?

One more game, one more app, one more serial, and one more crack
Warez are the only thing for me, hey now
One more game, one more app, one more serial, and one more crack
Could someone get the crack for Duke 3D
So I don't need the CD

One more game, one more app, one more serial, and one more crack
Warez are the only thing for me, hey now
One more game, one more app, one more serial, and one more crack
Could someone get the crack for Duke 3D
One more game, one more app, one more serial, and one more crack
Warez are the only thing for me, hey now
One more game, one more app, one more serial, and one more crack
Would someone get the crack for Duke 3D, oh please? I want to get it, please
All I want is something free, oh yeah.

@Hephera 1 year ago

oh my god thank you, i thought this version was lost to the sands of time. It has been ingrained in my brain since downloading it on KaZaA in 2001 and could only ever find the other version online which just sounds wrong.