pregaming the ol' shopping cart for bandcamp friday. (edit: https://isitbandcampfriday.com/ says it's not til september...) i have discovered that the original (?) "phooey! indeed, phooey" ending (~9:25) of Devin Townsend's Solar Winds is there (!!) https://insideoutmusic.bandcamp.com/track/solar-winds
this is maybe only relevant to the dorkiest of Devin Townsend hypergeeks, but for context.. suppose it's 2007, and your buddy sends you a zip file of mp3's of this new sci-fi rock-opera-but-it's-metal to introduce you to this artist, and you become obsessed with this goofy musical tale of an alien who's full of himself and invades earth because it's the only planet with good coffee, who's got a catchphrase-of-sorts in that he says "indeed" a lot. so you go to the music store and you buy the CD so you can rip FLACs for your library, because you just got religion about how mp3s are just an approximation of the music and you won't settle for anything less than a perfect copy of what's on the CD (though the losses incurred in recording and mastering to 16-bit 44100Hz are apparently fine with you), but when listening to your mathematically-pure copy, you notice that they've awkwardly changed the little dialogue-skit in between Solar Winds and Hyperdrive to instead awkwardly say "phooey! and... double-phooey." you go out and buy the 2-CD special edition, same deal. you're cursed to either edit the mp3-compressed phrase into the otherwise-lossless track, or just tank the psychic damage whenever you hear the altered phrase.
anyway bandcamp presumably has FLACs, so in a couple days i guess i'll have finally resolved this outstanding issue in my metal library, 17 years later.
