Myspace's music purge is the latest cultural scrubbing we'll regret | Will Cox

Myspace's music purge is the latest cultural scrubbing we'll regret | Will Cox

5 years ago
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/10/myspaces-music-purge-is-the-latest-careless-cultural-loss-well-regret

Bob Dylan’s first acting role was wiped because it took up space. What might we mourn from 50m songs deleted from Myspace?

Back when people still bought CDs and streaming media was a slow and frustrating experience, my teenage band recorded a number of average songs and put them out. I have copies of two of the three EPs we released. What didn’t get committed to those low-print-run, landfill-fodder discs was uploaded to our MySpace and left to float in the digital forever of the internet.