Negativland has also had the U2 single available in MP3 for download on their web site since the mid 1990s.
I remember downloading and listening to the MP3s for the first time, my computer was such a piece of crap it could barely play it – in fact unbeknownst to me it was only playing one of the stereo channels so for some time I didn’t realize what was playing out of the L side was completely different than the R side so I never even heard the ham radio conversation that plays throughout the song until months later.
