Banboozlement in the lostwave community

Sort of agree. A lot of the songs that are in the Lostwave category are available in their entirety, as opposed to just a low quality 30 second snippet. So the only lost part is the artist or origin rather than the full song (the "media" part of lost media). It's sort of like those "Where did this popular image come from?" searches. More like internet archaeology than lost media.

And as much as I'm into some of these searches and obscure/mysterious music as a whole, it is unfortunately very easy to "fake" (depending on your definition of fake). More-so than other mediums since there's literally millions of obscure songs out there. You could easily take any obscure catchy song off one of the mp3.com or MySpace archives, post a snippet on WZT or YouTube, and claim you don't know the song name or artist (i.e. "I found this CD on the ground in a parking lot"). Not to mention creating your own song is easier than ever before with the amount of tools out there.

I don't know - part of me thinks if people like the song then it doesn't matter that much if the search is based on a lie. Like with the "Above the Clouds" example in the OP - people still enjoy that song regardless of the context or backstory, or at least that's what I assume.