Hey, when I was cleaning out my storage unit I found my old CDs AND an external CD drive, and I found some old CDs with music that has VANISHED FROM THE GODDAMNED INTERNET WITHOUT A TRACE.
First, two songs I've had stuck in my head for probably like five years but I couldn't listen to them because even though the artists who made them still have some internet presence, this particular stuff isn't around.
Man, I've had that song (And a couple others I can't upload, because apparently if you upload a song to a draft post, then decide to delete the file and put it in another part of your draft, it still counts against your daily upload limit) in my head for YEARS now and there's nothing I could do about it.
Do you realize that before the internet you would just hear a song on the radio and if you didn't hear the DJ explain who it was you just had to be okay with the fact that you might never hear it again?
They made a whole episode of Pete and Pete about it. It's called "A Hard Day's Pete". It's good!
Okay, but those are songs where the internet sort of knows they exist, before now nobody could listen to them online, but there were discog listings, or bandcamp pages for the people who made them.
I downloaded all these off of MP3.com 25 years ago on a 56k modem. It took like an hour to download one file.
Okay, grandpa, nobody cares, well you're gonna care, because I know you kids today like this "lost media" stuff and I have unearthed some fucking proper lost media. Stuff so totally and utterly forgotten that nobody even remembers that they don't remember it.
Despite working under the incredibly specific name of magiCboY and listing these tracks under the equally specific album name "A Week on The Red Planet" whoever made these tracks has pulled a goddamned DB Cooper.
There is nothing about this on the english speaking internet that I can find. No hits on Google. No hits on DuckDuckGo. None whatsoever for the album title or the band name or two of the track titles. The third title, "Biker Billy Cooks With Fire" is a reference to an American cable access cooking show from the 90s.
Which looks like a cool show but doesn't really help.
