Back in the cassette era people (myself included) made a lot of mixtapes. Cassettes have gone the way of the dodo, but mixtapes are still around in various digital incarnations. A good example is Save Your Face, a blog by John Hilgart, dedicated to sharing the music of the Grateful Dead and several other groups in a mixtape format consisting of downloadable ZIP archives of MP3 files.
What I like about these collections is that they aren't full shows, which are easily available from many other sites, including the Internet Archive. Instead, most of the collections are "best of" selections from a single show or run of shows, or based on a specific jam or theme, for example, the Dead's famous "Spanish Jam".
There are also collections from other artists as diverse as Miles Davis, Elvis Costello, David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, and Devo. All in all, there are many hours gf good listening here.
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