Archive Opening on
04-05-2026
Owned and Operated by the Apollo 11 Archive
While we work on the archive, listen to In the Meantime (originally released 2009, re-released in May 2025).
This site is currently locked.
If you remember the original 32nd Street Meats site, you are in the right place. If you have never heard of it, you are still welcome here. The original site ran from 2009 to 2019. The original domain was created in November 2008 by Earl. The domain expired in August 2025 after it was renewed in 2023 for the final time. That renewal may have been done by Earl, but we are not sure. We acquired the domain in late 2025 after it expired, and we are rebuilding it as an archive.
This will not be everything. Not everything can be recovered, and not everything that gets recovered will be posted. What you see when the archive opens will be based on what we are able to find, verify, and preserve responsibly.
What this is
This is an archive project. The goal is simple: preserve whatever can still be found from Earl’s old work on 32ndstreetmeats.com and the wider internet around it. That includes audio, videos, artwork, screenshots, old links, alternate uploads, mirrors, and anything else that helps reconstruct the original ecosystem without rewriting it.
Earl is not running this, and Earl is not “back.” This project is what the era looks like after Earl went silent. The archive moves forward without him, using what exists, what can be recovered, and what can be documented cleanly.
When the site opens, material will be labeled clearly. If something is incomplete, it will be marked as incomplete. If something is unverified, it will be marked as unverified. The point is preservation and context, not pretending the record is perfect.
What 32nd Street Meats was
Back then, 32nd Street Meats was basically the hub for everything Earl made. Music, videos, artwork, updates, links, and whatever else he was putting out at the time all pointed back to that one place. It was not a polished public artist website. It felt more like a locked room with a doorway, and you either knew about it or you did not.
The site had a paywall style system. People had to send a minimum of $1 and then get accepted before they could actually join. That kept it small. It also made the community feel real and specific, because not everyone who stumbled across a link could instantly get in.
The site was created in 2009, and it went down in 2019. Once it was gone, a lot of the surrounding context got scattered across dead links, old uploads, and personal hard drives. That is why parts of it feel “half remembered” now. A lot of people remember the era, but not many people still have the receipts.
Who Earl Lee Baines was
Earl Lee Baines was a writer first, and an underground horrorcore artist second. His internet presence started around 2006. By the time 32nd Street Meats launched in 2009, he was around 20. His work stayed outside the mainstream, but it circulated more than people assume, especially in pockets of the internet that were built around forums, direct sharing, and niche music scenes.
After 2019, he did not make any more posts online. Nobody knows where he went. Our assumption is simple: when he took down the site, he wanted to be done with it. He was around 30 at that point, and it seems likely he wanted to step away and live a more normal life after that.
One important note: if you know personal information about Earl, keep it to yourself. It is clear he moved on from 32nd Street Meats. We do not want to dox Earl, or whoever he was in person. This archive is about preserving the work and the era, not pulling a private person back into the spotlight.
What the Apollo 11 Archive is doing
Apollo 11 is an archive team. The work is mostly unglamorous: locating copies, stabilizing files, comparing versions, checking timestamps, and writing notes so people can understand what they are looking at. When the site opens, material will be labeled clearly. If something is incomplete, it will be marked as incomplete. If something is unverified, it will be marked as unverified.
As of right now, Earl’s first album has been released: In the Meantime. We believe it was finalized in 2008, but it appears to have been uploaded to the original site in June 2009. Part of what this archive does is keep details like that in one place, across one clean index, so people are not forced to rely on memory and half preserved reposts.
Why lock it at all?
Because this is an archive, not a “launch” in the normal sense. The goal is to preserve what exists, not to roll out a finished product that looks complete on day one. If we put the site online while it is still being built, with blank sections and broken navigation, people will immediately fill the gaps with assumptions. That is how misinformation gets baked in early, and once it spreads, it is hard to pull back.
The site is locked right now until the structure is finished and there is at least a baseline amount of material to put on it. That means enough content to show what the archive is, how the labeling works, and how the public should read it. We want visitors to understand the difference between something that is verified, something that is incomplete, and something that is simply not found yet.
It also matters because people tend to assume an archive is “telling a story.” That is not what we are doing here. We are not building lore, we are not constructing a narrative, and we are not trying to make Earl into something he was not. We are taking what exists, preserving it, and presenting it with context so it does not get distorted over time.
When the site goes live, there might not be much there at first. If that happens, it is not a trick and it is not a stunt. It will simply mean we have not found much yet, or we have found material that still needs to be checked before it can be posted. Over time, sections may grow as more is recovered. Some sections may stay thin forever. That is the reality of archiving something that was never meant to be preserved.
Locking the site during prep is the cleanest way to prevent the wrong first impression. We would rather open later with a clear foundation than open early and spend months correcting misunderstandings that could have been avoided.
Why does any of this matter?
To be blunt, to people who do not care, it does not matter. Earl was not a public figure. He was not mainstream. If you never heard of him, there is no reason this would mean anything to you.
But to a lot of people, he was a real source of entertainment during a specific era of the internet. We have talked to more than a handful of people who knew him in some capacity and said he was a nice guy behind the scenes. This archive exists because even if he is not doing it anymore, the work still mattered to the people who were there for it. We want his legacy to carry on in a grounded way, without pretending it was bigger than it was.
When will this open?
The planned opening date is shown on the locked page: 04-05-2026. On that date, this index page will be replaced with the full site experience.
In the meantime, the archive is being assembled behind the scenes in a way that makes sense for long term preservation. That includes organizing what is recovered, writing context notes, and setting clear labels so visitors can tell what is verified, what is incomplete, and what is simply not available.
If the opening date arrives and the site looks smaller than you expected, that is normal. An archive grows based on what gets found. Some pages may be thin at first, and some pages may stay thin forever. The point of opening is to start the public record in one place, even if the collection is still in its early state.
If you have anything
If you have old screenshots, audio files, CD rips, merch photos, filenames, receipts, or anything you think ties back to the original ecosystem, keep it safe. When the archive opens, there will be a proper submit channel for recovery leads and documentation.
