He’d traded on private trackers for years. He’d once spent six hours converting a single corrupted .wav file from the Don’t Believe the Truth sessions. It was his sanctuary.

It was 3:00 AM, and Alex was staring at a 500GB external hard drive that had just stopped spinning. Click. Whirrr. Click. Death rattle.

He closed the laptop. The hard drive stayed dead. But the FLACs lived on.

He had built it over fifteen years. Not just the studio albums— Definitely Maybe (the original 1994 master, not the loud remaster), Morning Glory (the John Leckie mix of "Some Might Say"), Be Here Now (unpopular opinion: it’s a masterpiece of excess). He had the Masterplan B-sides in 24-bit, the Japanese Familiar to Millions bootleg, and the rarest of all: the 1997 Lost Angels Show where Liam changed the lyrics to "Champagne Supernova" to "Slowly walking down the wall, stepping over bodies after all."