Now I see what you were saying. I think the studio process strips the humanity out of music. I have been working on a feature request / outline of functionality for beets and etree that I need to finally submit to sampsyo. How awesome would this be:
Archive.org has a somewhat documented API that describes all of the "resources." A lot of the shows even come with cover art for those that are into that.
JSON for recording: https://archive.org/metadata/dannyschmidt2007-12-13.sbd.flac