What happens when streaming services die?
Major streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music boast massive catalogs but, like any music giant of our recent past, these services are prone to buyouts, data loss, and complete shutdowns.
In the early aughts, musicians flocked to online communities to share their songs and build fan-bases outside of their local music scenes. Websites like MP3.com, MySpace, and Purevolume opened up new avenues for bands to connect with fans and deliver music to the masses for free. This was the start of a music distribution revolution.
All of these platforms are now dead, and with them, the songs they hosted. Some will never be heard ever again, long purged from the hard drives whence they came and from the memories of passive music fans.
This website exists as a journal to one obsessive collector’s modest music archive as they search out lost music from the early Internet age.