Like the few on here who remember how great mp3.com was, I too lament the loss of its huge array of excellent indy music. Hopefully the archive will be fully restored some day[0,1,2]. Digital antiquities indeed.

Take warning: download and archive a copy of every digital asset you care about. I highly recommend the excellent utility youtube-dl[3]. I rely on it daily for copying obscure youtube videos that could disappear at any moment. Fool me twice...

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/12/03/mp3_com_archive_is_...

[1] https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/04/04/19/2318226/mp...

[2] https://archive.org/post/1004359/mp3com-archive

[3] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/