i'm concluding that the archive.org servers somehow knew how to remove duplicates. this is very curious to me...

i haven't completely convinced myself that the pull was complete, but i'm getting there.

so, what that means is that this is the earliest media list that i've got:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010628155850/http://chat.carleton.ca:80/~jparent2/music/music.html

and, i'm going to guess that this is actually dated to something more like winter, 2001 because radiohead's amnesiac is not in the list, and that would have been a prompt snag.

there's still the tripod site, if i'm lucky. but i've been hitting it for a few days now and it's just 403s. i'm not going to give up on that very easily...