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Something the Spotify generation will never know is how certain songs would get extremely popular on filesharing services but with completely made-up info. c.1999, a cover of "Gin & Juice" by The Gourds made its way to Napster. To this day, many, many people think it's by Phish.
This despite the fact that it is quite obviously NOT PHISH. Two years later, after "O Brother Where Art Thou?" came out, the mp3 reappeared, now attributed to the (nonexistent) Soggy Bottom Boys, from their (nonexistent) "Best Of The Soggy Bottom Boys."
"Stuck In The Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel (a band from Scotland) was commonly misattributed to Bob Dylan. America's "Horse With No Name" was a Neil Young song, for like five years, to people of a certain age range.
other things as i think back: every shoegaze song was Radiohead. the Gary Jules "Mad World" cover from Donnie Darko was by R.E.M. UB40's "Red Red Wine" was Bob Marley. many, many novelty songs were tagged as They Might Be Giants, and parodies to Weird Al.
