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I've told this story before but I heard "Mass Romantic" by the New Pornographers in a record store in 2002 but at the time the record was only available in Canada. It took me 6 mo to get a copy via someone's FTP server because you simply could not buy it online and no record store in Indiana had it

i hate to have one of these at all but my big "WE DRANK FROM THE HOSE" opinion is that people younger than millennials really can't imagine what coming of age in a time of media scarcity meant - like, I would read about records and movies and not actually be able to see them for YEARS

POV: it is the day after thanksgiving 2002 and you visit Indy CD and Vinyl on Broad Ripple Ave in Indianapolis. The guy at the counter is playing a mixtape and this song comes on. It is impossible to buy a copy anywhere, but you won't be deterred. You decide to go on a quest youtu.be/zJV2qvVmy-o?...

Mass Romanticyoutu.be Provided to YouTube by Beggars Group Digital Ltd.Mass Romantic · The New PornographersMass Romantic℗ 2000 The New Pornographers under exclusive license to Ma...

I'm going to become the riddler

Excuse me, I think you'll find this image was made by pornographers.

I heard a song from this Sheila Chandra album at like 2am on college radio and it took me literally two years to find a copy

now, of course, you can just find the exact tune in 30 seconds on YouTube lol

Quiet 1youtu.be Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesQuiet 1 · Sheila ChandraQuiet℗ 2012 Indipop RecordsReleased on: 2012-09-10Auto-generated by YouTube.

I heard a song in a restaurant in Tampa in 2011 and I'm still not sure I've been able to find it. I *think* it might be this, but it was over a decade before I heard the Eno song and I may just be misremembering youtu.be/e3PRnZZaY0I?...

King's Lead Hat (2004 Digital Remaster)youtu.be Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupKing's Lead Hat (2004 Digital Remaster) · Brian EnoBefore And After Science℗ 2004 Virgin Records LimitedReleased ...

Back in 1990, I was watching MTV “120 Minutes” when they did a special on Manchester and played music by 808 State. Never heard anything like it before—impossible to find in NJ suburbia, so I had to special order the tape. That specific moment led to 30+ years of making/releasing music and DJing

Skate videos were the worst for this, spent way too much money finding obscure CDs on eBay just to have access to one track

I spent so much money buying rarities and imports back then. The time and effort to track down a copy of the Beastie Boys Original Ill from the UK for the one extra track. Kids these days will never understand!

Not a record, but in 2000 I really got into Terry Pratchett. However, the early Discworld novels weren't distributed in the US at the time. I spent triple the price on a paperback copy of "Sourcery" because it had to be shipped from the UK.

Getting into a bunch of smaller US and European bands in the early 2000s UK was such a minefield because import CDs were still pretty expensive and you could end up with a shitty album by a band that had only a couple of good songs but have spent like a whole month's allowance on it

at least for me (gen z) this has been replaced by media abundance with pretty much the same effect - i hear about something and go ”man I should read/watch/listen to that too, probably in about 6 months when I’m done with All The Other Shit I’ve queued up” & Spotify is also a filter bubble, etc.

if something catches my ear while out dancing or w/e that Shazam *doesn’t* pick up? you bet your ass I’m calling canadian record stores about it

Reminds me of Trent Reznor’s “eulogy” after oink was shut down. Free music was nice, but what oink really offered was a simple repository, no ads no charts, and abundant music.