Shameless self-promotion: I am a media and cultural studies scholar who has done a bit of work on a Phish-adjacent topic that is relevant here. As Charlie suggests, Phish's music invites us to listen historically in a way that most other popular musics do not. For me, this provides an opening to think about the ways people collect and listen to Phish recordings under the changing media conditions that have coincided with Phish's career so far. Click here to read it.