Didn’t click the article yet but I agree, there were some great obscure music blogs and they always had download links. I remember a good French ye-ye one, one specializing in early early electronica, and I think a south american one on German prog rock. Downloaded everything I could. Those blogs were also a great way to get digital rips of movie soundtracks that had never been released on CD, sometimes years before vinyl to mp3 options were available to the general consumer.
