> I'm on some of the oink/what successors and honestly, it's so hard to build ratio that it makes me not really like them at all.

You might have some success remaking rips others have made using the same settings for the rips and encodes, and then letting your torrent client recheck the existing torrent against your version of the files. I’ve also had success contacting filesharing-friendly artists and getting new and unreleased albums and tracks and building ratio more directly that way.