He expected the usual bootleg hiss. He expected the muffled sound of a generation-old cassette tape. Instead, silence—pure, digital black—followed by a sudden, startling intake of breath.

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Elias clicked the file. A massive size for an album that wasn't even forty minutes long. It had to be high-resolution, perhaps 24-bit/192kHz.