"In the internet era, a live music fan has to contend with an array of unreliable resources to get his or her fix: bandwidth-hogging torrents, sketchy file-sharing sites, low-bitrate mp3s, and fuzzy YouTube rips."
For some bands, maybe.
Others, such as my personal favorite (Nine Inch Nails) have well-organized fan sites with easy to access archives of just about every recording ever known to exist for the artist.
I can't remember what their old club was called. I remember being a member of that used to unlock a real trove. But their old web sites were always intentionally confusing and maze-like in an entertaining and mysterious way.
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"In the internet era, a live music fan has to contend with an array of unreliable resources to get his or her fix: bandwidth-hogging torrents, sketchy file-sharing sites, low-bitrate mp3s, and fuzzy YouTube rips."
For some bands, maybe.
Others, such as my personal favorite (Nine Inch Nails) have well-organized fan sites with easy to access archives of just about every recording ever known to exist for the artist.
https://ninlive.com
Reminds me of Radiohead's [official] efforts: https://www.radiohead.com/library/
I can't remember what their old club was called. I remember being a member of that used to unlock a real trove. But their old web sites were always intentionally confusing and maze-like in an entertaining and mysterious way.