Tape Land 186 – Bluffcosm.com CD: Dear Courtney (January 2001) [released 6/22/25]

The Overnightscape Underground

59:21 – Welcome to Tape Land! On each episode, I’ll present the audio of a cassette tape or historic material from my personal archives.

Back when Bluffcosm started in March 2000, some aspects of technology were very limited. For example, the amount of storage space allotted to web hosting accounts was miniscule, to the point that MP3 files, even a few minutes long, were too large to be hosted. The now long-defunct MP3.com provided a solution – they would host, for free, a handful of MP3 files. While geared towards music, this was perfect for the surreal comedy of Bluffcosm.

One service they offered was to create audio CDs from the MP3s hosted on the site. These were able to be ordered and produced on-demand.

I created two of these CD releases for Bluffcosm – the second of which, “Dear Courtney” – is presented here.

While all of these audio tracks are already available in the archive, this is the first time they are being made available in the original CD track order. Also, in the show art are high-res photos of all parts of CD package.

Track listing:

1. Montana 1980 (Prelude) [1:51]
2. Bluffcosm Promo Insane [0:30]
3. Dear Courtney (Part 1) [7:07]
4. News From Civilization [2:03]
5. Kathy Jones [0:33]
6. Beublin 13: The Royal Mall [13:53]
7. Road to Truro [1:52]
8. Cooper [17:29]
9. Bill Jorgensen [3:58]
10. The Evil Farm (Distilled Highlights) [10:01]

License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Attribution: by Frank Edward Nora – more info at onsug.com