The technically unnecessary due to pluto.tv, twitch streams etc. if you want to relive that early 2000's period of pre-youtube Shoutcast streaming, a guy has kept a number of low-rez streams going for posterity and nostalgia - including two MST3k streams. You can control-n these right into VLC:

https://www.pracdev.org/channel99/pls_files/channel_3000.pls

https://www.pracdev.org/channel99/pls_files/channel_3000_hal...

from his site: https://www.pracdev.org/channel99/