Found a 2005 fan site for a band that hasn't updated since the lead singer left

I was looking up info on the band The Dismemberment Plan and stumbled onto a site called 'Planet of the Plan' that's still hosted on GeoCities. It's got a guestbook full of posts from 2005 asking about tour dates, but the last news post is literally about Travis Morrison quitting the band that same year. The whole layout is these tiny pixel art buttons and a MIDI file of 'The Ice of Boston' that auto-plays. It's like a perfect little museum piece that got frozen right when the band went on hiatus. Anyone else find these totally untouched fan shrines from the mid-2000s?

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michaelrodriguez2mo ago

Found a similar shrine for The Get Up Kids.

shane_robinson2mo ago

That's cool you found one for The Get Up Kids, @michaelrodriguez. I read a blog post last year about how these little fan shrines are popping up in record stores again. It said they're mostly made by people who miss the old days of liner notes and zines. It makes sense for a band like them, since their early albums felt so personal. Makes me wonder what they'd put in a shrine for "Something to Write Home About." What items would you want to see in it?

brian_murray1mo ago

Imagine a shoebox diorama with a crumpled up "Action" lyric sheet, a fake red hotel key card, and one of those disposable cameras that DEFINITELY has blurry pics from a 1999 show. @shane_robinson nailed it, this album was a bunch of secrets passed between friends. The shrine needs a bus ticket stub for sure, maybe a broken guitar pick taped to a thank you note. Honestly just smelling it should trigger a memory of cheap coffee and binder rings.