Skrillex Gave Away 300 Uncommon "Quest for Fireplace" CDs at MSG—However Younger Followers Are Struggling to Entry the Music

The antiquated storage medium is proving a tricky puzzle to crack for a few of Skrillex’s Gen-Z followers, who’re unable to hearken to the CDs’ alternate variations of “QFF” tracks.

Throughout his latest Madison Sq. Backyard efficiency, Skrillex gave away a restricted batch of 300 hand-marked CDs, however a few of these fortunate sufficient to snag a duplicate are having a little bit of bother with the antiquated {hardware}.

The CDs are mentioned to include alternate variations of tracks from his Quest For Fireplace album, probably earlier demos of the songs that ultimately led to the ultimate cuts we hear at the moment. We will not inform you for certain, nevertheless, as a result of following the present, followers shortly took to Reddit to voice their frustration over an incapability to entry the tracks.

One in all 300 restricted version bodily copies of Skrillex’s “Quest for Fireplace” album, which got away at his present at Madison Sq. Backyard on Saturday, February 18th.

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Gen-Z typically appear to have no downside ribbing the child boomer technology for struggling to rotate a PDF, however this latest debacle unfolding on Reddit exhibits that the subsequent technology of ravers maybe have their very own technological Achilles heel to be conscious of.

“I do not personal a single piece of {hardware} that may play CDs… besides my automobile,” wrote one Redditor.

“Simply to replace you, they had been burned to SACD’s which I assure most likely 2 or 3 people who received these discs have,” lamented one other. “I’m debating on whether or not or not it is actually value it to purchase one to tear it.”

Skrillex, Fred once more.. and 4 Tet at Madison Sq. Backyard on Saturday, February 18th.

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The validity of the bodily copies have been referred to as into query, however it appears the consensus is they’re legit. In a separate thread on the r/skrillex subreddit, one fan who acquired a CD mentioned it had a QR code.

“So I simply took a take a look at it a bit deeper, had a QR code on the again for an album obtain to Dropbox so I assume that makes me lean towards its from [Skrillex],” they wrote. “That is legit then.”

At any price, in case you’re among the many fortunate few to land a duplicate of one in every of these coveted items of digital music historical past, there’s nonetheless hope.