So for reasons which I may get into later, I wanted to hear a comedy song I vaguely remembered a few lyrics of: “Kill a Cat” by Glenn Super.

I haven’t yet, and it looks like I won’t any time soon.

I can find a few of Glenn Super’s “Mr. Bullhorn” bits on YouTube, but the only song I’ve found is “The Baby Zone,” as part of a complation; it’s all right but not what I was looking for.

I have found documentary proof that the song existed – it played a few times on the Dr. Demento Show (which is how I heard it the first time), and I could theoretically get it from there, buuuut…

• even after finding an episode that has “Kill a Cat” and is actually archived,
• I’d have to pay $3 for that episode¹
• via a sketchy-looking website²
• and then rip the stream (assuming that’s possible at my skill level), because for tedious licensing reasons it isn’t available for download,
• and only then could I edit the two-hour show down to the few minutes I want.

Don’t think so.

I have managed to find the first 45 seconds of “Kill a Cat” on another site, but it isn’t available to download for tedious licensing reasons (again), and the “Where to Buy” section is just as blank as most of the rest of that page.

I can’t even find the lyrics anywhere.

It’s incidents like this that justify my keeping thousands of MP3s, and EPUBs, and clipped news articles and blog posts on my computer. When I’m interested in something I want it to be available for reference, and relying on some vague institution like “the Internet” to preserve knowledge and culture has proven foolish, time and time again.

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1. …unless I wanted to pay $15 a month to become an “Online Club” “member,” which is an even worse price for the one song I’m currently interested in…
2. After the DriveThruRPG debacle, I think twice before giving my debit card number to any new storefront, and then I think a third time, and a fourth, and rarely do I actually go through with the purchase.