Skrillex Gave Away 300 Rare "Quest for Fire" CDs at MSG—But Young Fans Are Struggling to Access 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 current 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 hassle with the antiquated {hardware}.

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

One among 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 usually appear to have no downside ribbing the infant boomer technology for struggling to rotate a PDF, however this current debacle unfolding on Reddit reveals that the following 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 automotive,” wrote one Redditor.

“Simply to replace you, they had been burned to SACD’s which I assure in all probability 2 or 3 those that obtained 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 known as into query, however it appears the consensus is they’re official. In a separate thread on the r/skrillex subreddit, one fan who obtained a CD mentioned it had a QR code.

“So I simply took a take a look at it a little 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, when you’re among the many fortunate few to land a duplicate of one in all these coveted items of digital music historical past, there may be nonetheless hope.