• they might be giants scanning their first music video (shot on film) at 4k resolution, and then not releasing it for some reason
• men at work music videos never being scanned at a higher quality than a somewhat crappy 2003 DVD release with bad telecine flicker and bitrate issues throughout (many were also shot on film)
• thousands, hundreds of thousands of videotapes from lots and lots of bands from the 70s and 80s being thrown away or left to rot. their official music videos, television performances, etc
• warner brothers only releasing the awesome 1981 concert film Urgh! A Music War on a made-to-order DVD-R and never on blu-ray or streaming or ANYTHING else
• poor quality upscales (many times using "AI") of 80s/90s music videos replacing youtube copies

is saying "we are destroying our history" too dramatic? idk. im mad.

edit: and don't get me started on born-digital youtube stuff disappearing, or videogames, or stuff being unilaterally replaced with worse versions and nobody caring to preserve the original

in 2019 my friend Ash sent me the song "Factory", which is still one of my favorites. funny enough, when i first heard the song i thought it was from the 2000s, if not later!

anyway, from there i quickly discovered the rest of the Call of the West album and then Dark Continent and then everything else. i was hooked almost immediately!

Wall of Voodoo - Tse Tse Fly - May 30th, 1981 - The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

theres a cover of mexican radio (1982, Wall of Voodoo) going viral on tiktok, right

so viral infact that if you type mexican radio into youtube you get the shit ass cover instead of the actual song

i am angry at this development

(not to mention that the cover was made by a sex criminal who is currently serving a 45 year prison sentence)

(i am not making that up)