platinum record with strange properties

 original article:

http://www.kempa.com/blog/archives/001013.html

August 24 / Playing a Platinum Record
Valentine, you see, OWNS a platinum record. He's taken it upon himself to play it and determine what exactly the grooves of a default platinum record contain.

Clearly, this is awesome.
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"I have a story I thought you might be interested in. Long story short is that I used to be in a cheesy Christian band (regrettably) and we had a single that was on a double-CD compilation. This comp sold 250,000 copies and since it contained two CDs the RIAA certified it platinum. I have possessed a platinum record for the past six or seven years. I had it hanging over the toilet in my bathroom. Anyways, last Saturday my friends and I busted it out of the frame and put it on a turntable.

You might be interested to know these facts about the record:

* The hole in the middle was the size of the hole in the middle of a CD.
* There is extra space around the outside of the record that gets covered by the matting which makes it larger than a standard 12" LP.
* There is only information on one side of the "record."
* The thing is extremely thin as well. Like tin can thin. Thinner even.
* The strangest thing is that when I played it, everything was backwards. I ended up spinning it backwards to hear the recording.

Platinum Record-1

Anyways, the record always looked like it only had two tracks, and it turns out it did. The tracks were not what the same as the ones that are on the compilation record. After some research I think that the tracks are from a Salsoul Orchestra 12" single. I don’t know who they are, but I downloaded a snippet of one of their songs from the single and I think it is a match. One of my friends taped the whole experience and hopefully I will post this somewhere if you are ever interested.

Here is my full write up if you are interested, which is also where I will eventually let people know where to find the video footage." 

There's more backstory at the link. Hooray for Mr. Hellman's inquisitive nature -- we now have EVEN MORE useless vinyl-related knowledge!

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