While we ALL know we MP3 downloading pirates are inevitably damned to burn in Hell…
I recently found some old recordings from The Nips and the 101ers. Songs that are long out of print and only available on vinyl.
What rare/unusual treasures have you unearthed, MP3-wise?
Leonard Nimoy’s “Bilbo Baggins”. “Bravest little Hobbit of them all…”
Not very rare, but still…
It took me months to finally succesfully download a copy of Fish’s A Gentlemens Excuse Me.
Oooh, I can just see certain individuals jumping up and down turning red now…
“You’ve got Your Baby Back” by * The Mystical Knights of the Oingo Boingo * …later shortened to OIngo Boingo, and then just Boingo. They made the song all about Patty Hearst. Damn it’s funny 
“Someone to Watch Over Me,” as performed by Sting…only released as the (sorta) “b” side on a CD single.
“Jesus Touch my Heart” by unknown child singers. Found it the first day I was on Napster, and haven’t seen it on since.
Took me the better part of four months to find “It all comes down to you,” by Billie Myers, for a friend of mine.
Bad Boy by the Jive Bombers.
**Marching to Pretoria *The Smothers Brothers in Concert ***
Wierd Science Oingo Boingo
***** Wanted : The Girl from Ipanema - who’s the original man singer? *****
All I can get are the girl-singer versions (and, ugh! Sinatra).
They all have the lyrics reversed, and stupid “…but she looks straight ahead not at he”, instead of “…not at me”
If I knew the singer, I might be able to search that way.
Third Eye Blind, doing the theme from Scooby Doo.
I beleive the song is performed by Stan Getz- but he may not have been the original artist. Hope it helps.
Fishbone & The Skatalites doing “What’s up Pussycat?”
Depeche Mode, The Cure, U2 & NIN doing “Into a Darkened Room.” I can relive most of high school in one song!
these days are old by spookey ruben.
“Grudge” by an amazing band called The Argument
Remix of “When the World Is Running Down” by DifferentGear vs. the Police.
Also, I got “I Melt With You” by Modern English free from one of those burn-your-own-CD sites. I found it through Cheap Trick’s site. It’s called MusicMaker.com.
Just saw them in concert with Vertical Horizon. They didn’t do Scooby Doo, but they did do a nice cover of “I want to be sedated” or whatever it’s called.
A close tie between
Buck Dharma - All Tied Up (the entire album)
and
Yoda and Princess Leia - Doing the nasty.
The Nails - 88 Lines about 44 Women
(not super rare, I think it may be on a few compilation CDs)
Pete Seeger - Little Boxes
(heard this one on some documentary soundtrack, and couldn’t find it for the longest time)
for Jerry’s kids:
16 October 1981
Melkweg-Amsterdam – Ripple