Before streaming metadata, a bad MP3 filename could become music history. Retard-O-Bot’s “Facade” became “Pimpz and Basketballz,” while other mislabeled tracks were credited to Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails and Weird Al.

Streaming made music easier to hear than ever. Now fans are hunting physical media, rare CDs, vinyl and old merch while rebuilding the culture around the songs.

MySpace lost millions of songs from the era when underground bands built entire worlds online. Twenty years later, younger fans are digging through broken pages, old CDs and forgotten hard drives to piece some of it back together.