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When the Internet first came out, I was overjoyed – finally a way of slowly and painstakingly compiling a list of all the obscurest Julian Cope b-sides and rarities: in order to one day track them down in crazy backstreet vinyl stores and compile the ultimate “Vagaries Rarities” (as Lee used to call them) collection. Now of course you can just actually skip straight over the entire process and go straight to listening to most of them for nowt on Spotify. Somewhere, somehow the thrill of the chase has been lost… but then there’s still something to be said for instant gratification. Oo-er.