extraordinarily lo-fi bootlegs

the legendary bob dylan "armpit tape" from 1962
the only widely circulating copy of slaughterchrist's 1990 album "reflections of things to come", a fantastic and original thrash metal cassette dubbed through the analog hole
a 1969 audience recording of the monkees taped in wichita, kansas, full of dictaphone crackle and varispeed fluctuations
a 19-minute live recording of stackridge playing "slark" encoded to 56 kbps mono mp3 and uploaded to a presumably long-defunct stackridge blog
an astoundingly poor quality colour 16 mm film, with sound, of the velvet underground playing at the boston tea party in 1967 - the only recorded velvet underground live versions of "walk it and talk it" and "i heard her call my name" become little more than a series of VWIP VWIP VWIP sounds as the visual cuts between a series of indistinct images

at some point it ceases being a test of endurance and starts being something you listen to _because_ it sounds so intolerably awful

i could go on and probably will at some point