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Detritus Archives

This is where recombined cultural produce and studies of it can be found. Included here are some of the classics of appropriation art and scholarship, preserved and protected from those that would control free expression. We'll be adding new stuff all the time, so check back often.

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Audio banned, supressed and hard to find because of copyright infringement:

John Oswald:
- John Oswald's Plunderphonic - streaming mpeg1-layer3 audio of the entire CD.
- John Oswald's Rubaiyat - streaming mpeg1-layer3 audio.
- Early Cassette Works -
  1. The Mystery Tapes. a series of cassette releases put out by Oswald with little or no explanation. Now unavailable, though copious information about them is on the plunderphonic site.
  2. Kissing Jesus in the Dark - We're unsure whether this is officially a Mystery Tape, but it is a very early cassette tape released by Oswald, and it's very good.
U2 by Negativland - mpeg1-layer3 audio
1987: What the Fuck's Going On? by The Jams (aka the KLF) - streaming mpeg1-layer3 audio of the first Jams album.
Chumbawamba's "Jesus H. Christ" album - The first version of the album that would get re-done and re-named "Sshhh" after lawyers representing a variety of pop stars threatened legal action for copyright infringement.

Texts - writings about copyright, appropriation, and other related ideas.

Articles from Synergy, a zine of culture and technology.
The PlunderMail Archive - a collection of email discussion on relevant topics.

"[A]rt is long, not infinite... One day we will use it up - unless we
		can learn to recycle it like any other finite resource."
		- Spider Robinson, "Melancholy Elephants"

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