Gimme that old timey music!

I just discovered one of the coolest collections of old recordings, accessible to anyone and everyone for free. Be sure to scoot over to this web page, where they have created "a digital collection of over 5,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. In an effort to bring these recordings to a wider audience, they can be freely downloaded or streamed online. On this site you will have the opportunity to find out more about the cylinder format, listen to thousands of musical and spoken selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discover a little-known era of recorded sound."

How cool is that? I spent about two hours Sunday afternoon listening to various recordings and felt I could have continued working through this collection for many more hours, but we had to go grocery shopping. Dang!