The MOS Technologies 6581, or SID, is perhaps the integrated circuit whose sound is most sought-after in the chiptune world.

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Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased in the 2000s, anyone who spent time on that era’s file-sharing networks can verify that the LP was still the most important unit for music obsessives.