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?...
