NESCOVER, 13-hit songs covered by the Nintendo Entertainment System’s 8-Bit sound processor, has been located and is now re-available for download here on Plastic Shards! NESCOVER was originally a free-download feature on SomethingAwful.com. The .zip archive file contains the following,

1. REM – Losing My Religion
2. Europe – Final Countdown
3. Radiohead – Karma Police
4. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
5. Survivor – Eye of the Tiger
6. Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
7. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
8. Led Zeppelin – Kashmir
9. Slayer – Angel of Death
10. David Pomeranz – Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me Now
11. Coldplay – Yellow
12. Rick James – Superfreak
13. Semisonic – Closing Time
14. (Bonus Track) Tetris Music A “Piano Practice Remix”

Note: This isn’t a complete version of NESCOVER. If you can help me recover the other three missing songs, I’ll add them to the zip file for download!

Curiously, all mirrors to the original story and album no longer exist anywhere on the internet, even on SomethingAwful itself. A cease & desist order apparently put a stop to it. A torrent may exist somewhere in some corner of the internet, but why use that when the whole thing is available right here?

DOWNLOAD NESCOVER: NESCOVER.zip [Plastic Shards mirror.]

I’m not exactly the kind of person who’s idea of home sweet home is a house in a nice quiet suburb. I suppose I enjoy the city life and the interesting things that come with it. Apartments are usually highly modular places to live, many buildings tailored to fit specific peoples needs. I’m not much into the whole “ultra-modern look” that was conceptualized during the early ’90s utilizing abstract shapes, but I will admit I like the more “designed” interior with questionable materials, open spaces, and bold colors. The kind that is almost industrial in nature, using a lot of metal and crude exposure of the architectural elements. I was interested to see if a these kind of “artists lofts” existed in Boston, and through a little sleuthing I found one.

“loft23″ is an interesting collection of luxury loft apartments which are more or less a single huge room divided up with walls. A single bedroom here is a bit hefty at $2100+ per month. As a student, my current rent is $475 a month, and I find that hard to scrounge up on time as it is. Still, if I find a love, I’m sure moving into a place of that price would easy across two people with full-time jobs. Though by that rate, renting an apartment would be foolish over time, and you would be better off paying to own.

Still, this would be my kind of living.

Man, I would love to have friends over at a place like this. How relaxing.

Stainless steel half-inch tiles in the kitchen. Strangely beautiful.

How about that? They actually made the roof of the building a functional social area. Great view of Boston.

Check out the place for yourself to kick your curiosity: loft23