About the band…
“Forget trying to slap a label on Dispatch. You’re welcome to give it a shot - plenty of people have, calling them at times a heartfelt acoustic trio, a wailing rock band, a devil-may-care funk act. But the band rejects epithets at every turn. It’s nothing personal, it’s just that they find inventiveness more interesting than churning out the kind of neat little ditties that people listen to for a week and then forget.
Dispatch began as three Middlebury College friends (Braddigan, Pete Francis, and Chad Stokes Urmston) touring in a broken down van named Wimpy, playing the music they liked. For years they managed themselves, ran their own sound, and produced and marketed their own music, despite offers from major record labels.
And something incredible happened. Fans were drawn to Dispatch because of their authenticity and their refusal to give in to a ’system’ that would have ultimately tried to make them over into something different. Soon they were outselling platinum recording artists in hard ticket sales, with no radio airplay, no marketing budget, and no corporate machine behind them.
The key to their success? Genuine relationships. Because fans had to find Dispatch by word of mouth, each one owned the discovery and passed it on. Propelled by this underground grassroots movement, the band went on to sell over 400,000 records and hit the Billboard charts Top 20 with 3 different albums. And of course, at The Last Dispatch concert in July 2004 over 110,000 fans [more than three times the expected 30,000] turned out to show their love and respect in one huge, final farewell.” -Taken from Dispatchmovie.com
All art/CD scans are included for the discog.
Encoder: EAC 0.95 beta 2 (Secure Mode)
Codec: LAME 3.96.1
Setting: –alt-preset extreme (APX)
Those settings apply to all but the Zimbabwe recordings, Wide Right Turns, and hidden tracks from Bang Bang. The Zimbabwe tracks were alphabetized when I got them but I took the time to reorganize them back into the setlist for each show. It’ll be like you’re there ;-). (and how I wish I was, but was out of the country during the shows.)
Links are separated by album in chronological release order.
Hope you enjoy. 
(1.87gB total)
http://rapidshare.com/files/53455734/Dispatch_-_1996_-_Silent_Steeples.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/53453772/Dispatch_-_1997_-_Bang_Bang.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/53453318/Dispatch_-_Bang_Bang_27s_Hidden_Tracks.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/53453852/Dispatch_-_1998_-_Four-Day_Trials.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/53454075/Dispatch_-_1999_-_Who_Are_We_Living_For.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/53453369/Dispatch_-_1999_-_Who_Are_We_Living_For.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/53454077/Dispatch_-_2002_-_Under_The_Radar.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/53454053/Dispatch_-_2002_-_Under_The_Radar.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/53453998/Dispatch_-_2002_-_Under_The_Radar.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/53453331/Dispatch_-_2002_-_Under_The_Radar.part4.rar
DEAD
http://rapidshare.com/files/53453765/Dispatch_-_Wide_Right_Turns.rar
DEAD
http://rapidshare.com/files/54351455/Dispatch_-_Zimbabwe_7-15-07.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/54353662/Dispatch_-_Zimbabwe_7-15-07.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/54356679/Dispatch_-_Zimbabwe_7-15-07.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/54358228/Dispatch_-_Zimbabwe_7-15-07.part4.rar
Also get The Last Dispatch documentary about their final 12 days as a band. Here…
http://www.warez-bb.org/viewtopic.php?p=4655152
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