re: #167 iossarian

I can remember not only the stories about Satanic messages in rock tunes played backwards, but also messages about “Paul is dead” on some Beatles album or another. Then as now I have to wonder why anyone would *want* to play an album backwards, since it’s sure to damage both the vinyl and the stylus. And custom-building a turntable to spin a record in reverse seemed like a real waste of money.

Yet, the religious nutjobs back then (the ones setting fire to piles of “Satanic” rock albums) insisted the messages were really there. How did they know? Did they actually spin the albums in reverse? I still wonder about it.