Website Lifetime: May 1998 - now

Website: https://www.angelfire.com/tx5/brookesalbumcovers

Former URLs: https://www.angelfire.com/hi/AbbyB
http://brookesalbumcovers.terrashare.com

Why I Made This Site: I've been collecting Hole bootlegs and import singles since 1998 and thought a site detailing information on each bootleg would be helpful to other collectors. I didn't see many pages at the time doing this, so I decided to start my own. There aren't many official Hole releases out there but scads of bootlegs, so it great fun to track down all these obscure and rare CDs to add to my collection. I also enjoyed collecting books, magazines and clippings related to Hole, so that explains the addition of a photo gallery and articles section to the site. The site was added to Yahoo's directory of Hole websites in December 1998 (a big source of excitement to my 16 year-old self), which greatly improved traffic, along with exchanging links with many other Hole webmasters. Sorry if the look of the site bores you. Not great at making graphics and websites, and hey, I prefer simplicity anyway.

Unfortunately, the guestbook services I signed up with originally are now defunct and I lost about 55 pages of entries. Thanks to Wayback Machine I was able to find and save some old entries (and also view some embarrassingly bad former layouts of this site!). This is an excellent site to utilize if you want to go look up old Hole websites from back in the day!

1999 Part 1 1999 Part 2 2000 Part 1 2000 Part 2 2000 Part 3 2000-2001 2001 2001-2002

This site is dedicated to the memories of Frank E. Palasota and Charles John Kolb III.