The earnest answer is I wanted to play my ripped mp3s and recordings off the radio on my computer at home. We had slow dial-up and 4 kids fighting over it, but I had my own non-internet-connected computer and an early flash drive, and the school had fast internet.
I wonder if spelling the MP3 part of the path name with URL encoded characters might not have defeated the check yet still resolved on the server end.
E.g. instead of /mp3/ you write /%6dp3/.
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If I knew then what I know about /g?urls/ today, ...
He wanted to whip the llamas ass.
Surely he only wanted WinAmp to listen to mp3s recorded by his school band.