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Today is hunt day! Soon I will leave. Before that, I will try to find to find my gloves. But I wanted to note something pleasantly random first. Insomaniacal last night, was reminded of Information Society's 1988 hit "What's on Your Mind" by someone else's blog, and made a beeline for the iTunes store because I wanted to spend a dollar on it. And, lo: I could, for that whole album is there. Then I felt wistful, as tends to happen easily with me, because: look at the happy people on the album's cover! Doesn't it make you wonder where they are now?
Then I felt wistful, because I remembered how I discovered this group: through a sampler disc packaged with the Sega CD system I bought 11 years ago. It included a couple of tracks from this album, in CD+G format, and I bet I'm one of only a relative handful of people who bothered to watch the video tracks. They were delightful: cartoony depictions of the band and their house, with running commentaries about their history, their musical techniques, and their favorite recipes. But because I was a broke undergrad (and also as lazy as I ever was) I didn't go buy the album, so didn't see the other "videos", and some years later sold the disc (with the rest of my Sega), and indeed have never encountered any CD+G anything since then. (You probably haven't, either.)
So after a few moments of Googling, I found this. It's not really the same experience -- the actual art was vaguely animated, and had the current audio track's lyrics scrolling along the bottom of the screen, in time. But I was pretty stoked to find it, nonetheless.
Also found references to http://www.insoc.org, allegedly housing a website maintained by Kurt (the vocalist with labcoat and Edward Scissorhands hair, at least back then), but it doesn't seem to be awake right now.