Originally published at: Taylor Swift fan discovers "cursed" vinyl copy with songs about "flakes of flesh" | Boing Boing
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Shouldn’t’a played it back’ards dearie… cackles… 
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Probably most people won’t even know, because most records are sold as keep-sakes or wall art and the record inside is never played.
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If I bought a copy of “Happy Land” and heard songs about ex-boyfriends and Emma Stone, I would be as equally miffed.
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Nice!
Is Cabaret Voltaire on the A side too?
I figured there was a pressing error. Or Taylor Swift is trying to expose fans to early industrial/goth/dance.
PIG’s Pain is God remix album, Pain Killer, was originally mis-pressed (mis-burnt?) as the CD had The Joy Thieves - American Parasite on it!
They had to recall and re-release them, including the signed pill shaped card inside. I scrambled and found someone pissed they got the bad version and bought his and sent him a copy of the correct one. So now I have both version, with the different colored signed pill card.
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… she is the last great american songwriter, after all. Stanford certified.
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I’m confused.
Is this supposed to be a good and unexpected outcome, or bad and unexpected outcome and the fan seeking a refund?
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If this is real, that disk should be worth a boatload. And if I worked at a pressing plant I would do this every time we switched pressings.
We buy and listen to vinyl, but a few years ago my daughter wanted a poster of Bjork’s Debut. I couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for (they were either cropped, had weird text on them or were original subway posters that cost hundreds). I ended up buying the record, framing the original sleeve for her and making a dummy out of a blank sleeve. Came out great!
I think I really captured her contemplative, soft-focus manner.
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My understanding is that this involves a line from Harlan Ellison’s Outer Limits episode “Demon with a Glass Hand”.
“There’s 70 billion people of Earth, where are they hiding?”
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I now own three vinyl mis-pressings. I have the two-LP “A Young Person’s Guide to King Crimson”, with side 3 being some 5-piece jazz combo. Recently I picked up a used copy of Waylon Jennings’ Greatest Hits, but side A is another artist (unless I miss my guess, it’s Hank Snow). Lastly, a friend recently gave me a pile of LPs because he was leaving town, and among them was Steven Stills 2. On the B side, that label was mis-applied way off center, making the last two songs on that side unplayable because the label infringes deeply into the playing surface.
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I think what the 70 billion people on earth are hiding is mostly their numbers, since almost 90% do not show up on population estimates.
pssst…
they’re dead and buried.
Oh. Got to give it up, that’s a good hiding place.
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I am enjoying the hell out of Happy Land. Thanks, random culture moment!
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