This may be the weirdest (and most disgusting) release of a single in the history of music
There are a couple of ways to approach record collecting, The first is to look for gaps in your collection when it comes to the essentials and fill them. Others search for rare releases, limited editions, and long out-of-print records that have become valuable. The final sort of collecting involves looking for odd formats.
For example, there’s a 2012 album by Breakbot that was pressed into chocolate instead of vinyl. After it wears out after one or two plays, you can eat it. The Shout Out Louds released a kit in 2012 that included a mold, a bottle of distilled water, and instructions how to make the album out of ice. Once again, you can get one or two plays out of it before it turns your turntable into a watery mess.
Earlier this year, Green Day released “demastered” versions of the 30th anniversary version of the Dookie album. Fifteen songs are avaiable in obscure formats.
- Burnout – Player Piano Roll
- Having A Blast – Floppy Disk
- Chump – Teddy Ruxpin
- Longview – Doorbell
- Welcome To Paradise – Game Boy Cartridge
- Pulling Teeth – Toothbrush
- Basket Case – Big Mouth Billy Bass
- She – HitClip
- Sassafras Roots – 8-track
- When I Come Around – Wax Cylinder
- Coming Clean – X-Ray Record
- Emenius Sleepus – Answering Machine
- In The End – MiniDisc
- F.O.D. – Fisher Price Record
- All By Myself – Music Box
This brings me to a thrash metal group called Belushi Speed Ball. Over the years, they’ve done similar weird releases and were feeling a little ripped off. Besides, they saw Green Day’s move as a missed opportunity. Shouldn’t they have somehow used sh*t to commemorate an album called Dookie? Well, if Green Day wouldn’t do it, Belushi Speed Ball would.
The group has released a version of their single “This Is the Peak” on dog poop. You read that correctly.
I quote:
“Here at Belushi Speed Ball Incorporated, we pride ourselves in the artisan crafting of our hand made merchandise items, which over the years we have provided the fans with albums on Super Nintendo, Gameboy Advanced, Nintendo 64, Sega Cd, VHS, Furby, Pizza, 8-track, and Teddy Ruxpin. Which we have busted our butts to get noticed by the masses. And in one single swoop, Green Day comes in and instantly is revered as innovative merch geniuses. Is this… is this how getting ripped off feels?!? Is this how Municipal Waste feels!?!”
The “one of one” release of resin-encased Labrador poop is available on eBay. I’m not sure how you’re supposed to play it, but if given that this will be the only such release made, it could become rather valuable. Or not.
