Searching For TV Girl Lost Media

Published

January 13, 2026

How I Search For TV Girl Lost Media

Proof that I’m qualified to talk about this

Searching for lost media can be a daunting task. From finding leads to contacting individuals, it can be tricky to know where to start. While I’m not an expert in all lost media, I believe that I have useful tricks for finding TV Girl-related items. A guide on my process from start to finish is listed below.

Prerequisites

The basic gist of lost media searching, with only a couple of exceptions, is based around contacting potential leads. To contact leads, however, you need to know what you’re searching for, and how to search for it.

What To Search For

This document, made by Koko, lists all of the media that, at some point, has been lost, and is related to TV Girl. More info on each is available in the Discord server. There’s a specific lost media channel, which is what originally got me searching. Thanks Vince!

Some projects will likely be nigh impossible to find, especially the really early stuff, but others, such as Brad P and The Son Of Sam, and the Misery demos, are great starting points.

How To Search For It

Start Googling! That’s the best way to find leads for most of these. Leads come from small threads of people talking about these projects back when they were available, and most of these projects are mentioned online somewhere. Use search modifiers to narrow things down where you can. (My favorites to use are quotations, the “before:” command, and “-”.) Once you find a lead, identify who could have listened to (and potentially downloaded) the lost media you’re looking for. Then, your goal is to link whoever posted about it to a modern contact, much in the same way you find leads.

I Found a Contact!

Great! DON’T SEND OFF A MESSAGE.

But I know it’s the right person and a good lead. Is it okay to contact now?

No

Instead, alert Vince, the server owner of the Discord, (although I can help draft the message, so feel free to ping me with my username: llamanade_) to get a message to send cleared. We want to keep track of who’s contacted, and what’s being said. Confusion is what keeps things lost, folks.

Tips and Final Notes

  1. If you’re struggling to find a piece of information because of dead links, try the Wayback Machine! Not only does it help with finding contacts, 2 lost songs were found on there as well, and the info we have on the Misery demos comes from there.
  2. If you’re unsure on whether or not you can contact someone, it’s always best to double-check. Most of the time, if you’re not directly contacting someone of interest from a non-business method, it’s not worth it.
  3. This takes time and effort! It was 3 months before I got a lucky break with The Whaletails, then another 7 before I found anything else. Keep consistent, and you’ll find more than you thought you would.
  4. Attention to detail is key. Remembering usernames or knowing where images come from has gotten me a couple of leads before.
  5. URL editing can be useful, especially for things like last.fm.
  6. If you want to help, but don’t want to search for leads, this chart has my Hype Machine leads, which could potentially find us the Misery Demos and the rest of Brad P and The Son of Sam.
  7. Brad has already been contacted. We are not going to contact Trung out of respect. Please do not attempt to contact either of them.
  8. If you have questions, don’t be afraid to ping me in the Discord. I can help to get the ball rolling or search through a lead if you’re stuck, as long as I have the time.
  9. Have fun! Ultimately, the odds that everything will be saved are low, but never zero, and the more fun you have looking for these files, the more likely you’ll be to search for them. Good luck searching!
  10. As a final note, avoid posting the personal information of people in publicly accessible places. Be kind as you search.