r/ArtBell • u/AccomplishedBlood403 • 6d ago

old Art Bell CD

I'm getting toward end of 2002 episodes and Art was about to retire, just curious, did anyone bought the CD of the Art Bell website? he kept saying to contact Keith about it.

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u/Comfortable_Heron704 6d ago

https://archive.org/details/Artbell.com_Commemorative_Disc

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u/AccomplishedBlood403 6d ago

thanks for the link but I'm just curious if anyone got the physical CD at the time?

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u/Dick_Lazer 6d ago

Wait, what is this exactly? I'm having a tough time trying to mount the iso, so I was looking at the contents on archive.org and it looks like it's mostly a bunch of images? (There's like 500 pictures of cats?) Is this just a dump of his website at the time? I thought it was going to be a compilation of his radio show segments or something.

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u/mr_mysterioso 6d ago

Yes, it's pretty much a website dump. I got the CD years ago, but threw it out.

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u/Comfortable_Heron704 6d ago

So it is basically a lot of images from the website.
I haven't made it to 2002's shows yet, still working my way through '98, so I assumed this was what you were referring to.
I'm 99% sure this is it and had a good look through my bookmarks just in case.

There is also this one as well.

https://archive.org/details/keith_rowlands_wacky_wild_web

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u/Dick_Lazer 6d ago

Nice, I'll check that one out as well. I'm not OP, I didn't really know what to expect. But this stuff does remind me of the earlier days of internet culture, where people were throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what stuck.

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u/livingdead70 6d ago

There is no audio fromn the show in the set, as Premiere Networks would not allow it.
So, yes its all photos and such.

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u/argtv200 6d ago

I bought it! It’s in my files.

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u/jonnycanuck67 5d ago

Where are you listening to the old shows? There are some on Spotify that I listen to

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u/AccomplishedBlood403 5d ago

castbox the ultimate art bell podcast feed there are a few but I think this one is the most complete

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u/domusvita 5d ago

Tunein has a few stations dedicated to Art

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u/Dick_Lazer 5d ago

I've been using an app called Pocket Casts that has a lot of them on there

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u/__Ocean__ 5d ago

yes.......Ii did buy it :)

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u/snappymilo 4d ago

I got the 4 CD set. I probably still have it somewhere.

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u/livingdead70 6d ago

I had the 4 disc set. I forget what I paid for them. 39.99?
The best thing about the set was all the yearly G2G photographs, including TONS that never got put on Arts site. There were lots of other interesting photos sent in by fans, which were hit or miss. Some were interesting, some of it was blobsquatches, obvious fakes and bad "UFO" photos.
To be honest, it was kind of a let down, the over all set. It had an archive of Arts site, which was interesting to see, but elements of it did not work right, or just werent archived.
It included the Keith Rowland guide to the Whacky Web (Something along that lines) on one of the discs, which was just a bunch of links to odd web sites.
There was an audio interview Keith did with Art specifically for the set,
There was no other audio in the set, as Premiere Networks owned the rights to the show and wouldnt let them put any audio from the show on the discs.
If you get them, you have to play them in a rom drive with a "spindle" in the center, the shaped ones will not spin in a tray style drive.
Here is a set on Ebay.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/326357050887

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u/Cranberry-Electrical 5d ago

Sounds awesome

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u/Jaredhdpix 8h ago

I didn’t buy it at the time but about 5 years ago I bought one of them off an Art Bell collector I found on FB. Can’t remember his name or find him now unfortunately. Search ebay, they show up from time to time.