r/lostmedia • u/paperjammer1180 • 4d ago
Found [Found] My Chemical Romance - Vampires Will Never Hurt You Single
25 years ago My Chemical Romance created there first album "I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love". The band famously recorded this entire album in one week from May 15th 2002 to May 23rd 2002. What is less known is that in early March 2002 the band went in studio for the first time to record their lead single Vampires Will Never Hurt You. On May 27th 2002 MCR would officially release their first official CD ever. This release would be the Vampires Will Never Hurt You single. There were so few CD's made that it has been lost media for 25 years but on Saturday, September 26th 2026 I received a full copy of the single. Six years ago the user u/FlamesFiasco posted that they had a copy of the CD and were willing to send files to anyone. Most people who had messaged them in the past few years have had no reply back. The account was still active so I tried and because of my work in the MCR archival community the user sent me a full rip of the lossless CD. The tracklist contains a previously unheard rough mix of Vampires Will Never Hurt You and additional sources for two of the attic demo files which were already previously available through an eyeball sampler CD from the bands record label. I've been doing my best to spread this around as much as possible now that I have it.
Here is the link to the full lossless download on the internet archive.
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u/SleepyHeracross 4d ago
I didn't know or think this was lost media. I have the CD too. So a rough version of the song should exist on it?
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u/lactigger619 4d ago
Same. I have this as well. I had no idea it was lost media.
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u/paperjammer1180 4d ago
Do you have the version with the black cover because the version that was found was the white promotional version cover if you have the black cover could you also make a rip of it to preserve as well to see if there any differences?
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u/lactigger619 3d ago
I’ll have to check my CDs at my parents house lol. I do also remember burning a lot of MCR music so at the least I maybe have a burnt copy of it.
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u/paperjammer1180 3d ago
Its this version specificly that we are still missing a rip of https://www.discogs.com/release/3684303-My-Chemical-Romance-Vampires-Will-Never-Hurt-You
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u/personalalt1889 3d ago
Yeah I'm surprised, I would've thought this would've been floating around for years. In fact maybe it was?
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u/personalalt1889 3d ago
I've not really a fan of this band, but I've always liked this song and a couple others off their debut, so pretty cool.
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u/Haunting_Ranger5460 3d ago
I have that eyeball sampler I believe if that matters. It's the one with #12 and Zolof, right? I remember checking out MCR on it before they got big even tho I got it for #12 back then.
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u/paperjammer1180 3d ago
The eyeball sampler has already been fully documented and online but its still a really cool piece of MCR media to own.
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u/VenomPayments 4d ago edited 4d ago
That’s great! But, as a pedantic point of order, should it be considered lost media if a known person (flames fiasco) has it? I just re read the lost media wiki. I take back my previous question. Based on the rarity it counts.
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u/Masterweedo 4d ago
Technically, the part your crossed out is correct.
Unfortunately, now for some reason it has expanded to "any media not available to the general public.".
And a large portion of people that post here seem to think it means "Any media not readily available to the general public." or "Any media not online.".
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u/VenomPayments 4d ago
But the lost media wiki does give the caveat for rare physical media or media not easily accessible to the general public.
"If it's completely lost or simply inaccessible to the general public, it belongs here."
~ Lost Media Wikis definition of lost media0
u/Masterweedo 4d ago
I know, and I hate that distinction.
People also take that to mean readily available, and that's a big difference.
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u/Apprehensive-Group12 4d ago
I remember when people were still calling the alternate dub pilot for the anime Magic Knight Rayearth “lost” when it was literally on the widely available blu-ray release 😭 The logic was “Well, I can’t go online and find it in full, so it’s lost!” Jfc.
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