Not only that, it’s almost a certainty that not every little rarity alike to ‘bootleg of local ska band from the 80s that never released an album’ makes the jump each time.
Of course, those are mostly oddities that virtually no one cares about in a sonic sense, but it’s still a piece of musical history.
Kind of makes me wish whoever sued what.cd offered them a sort of clemency deal: keep the site up until everything has been archived by a legit third party (that wouldn’t share it, but so everything has at least been preserved), then shut it down.
Instead they burned down the musical library of Alexandria..
Of course, those are mostly oddities that virtually no one cares about in a sonic sense, but it’s still a piece of musical history.
Kind of makes me wish whoever sued what.cd offered them a sort of clemency deal: keep the site up until everything has been archived by a legit third party (that wouldn’t share it, but so everything has at least been preserved), then shut it down.
Instead they burned down the musical library of Alexandria..