like the conspiracy to imbed backward messages on records so you ruin them trying to hear the messages and have to buy new ones.
(for the younger readers, "Records" were what they stored analog music on back in ancient times. they consisted of a disc of vinyl with the music cut into rough grooves spiraling in toward the center. A stylus called a "needle" rode in these grooves and was vibrated by the roughness (which was the music) and thereby read the disc. The slightest bump (like a hampster passing gas) would be enough to cause the needle to jump out of this groove and destroy the record)
This concludes this history lesson for today.
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