Post by John Green on Feb 16, 2021 11:47:25 GMT
Released via his label Death Is Not the End, Vol 1 is available digitally at a name-your-price rate and for £7.50 as a limited-edition cassette tape – an echo of the format on which pirate listeners captured transmissions of hardcore and jungle. Back then, most fans pressed pause when the ad break started, which means that surviving documents of the form are relatively scarce. But what once seemed ephemeral and irritating has acquired period charm and collectability. www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/16/save-and-rave-how-pirate-radio-adverts-capture-a-lost-britain
