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Ever Wonder What the Music on a Gold Record Sounds Like? King Ad Rock, From the Beastie Boys, Has the Incredible Answer · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever wondered what a gold record sounds like.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about any album that sells more than
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  Speaker 2: five hundred thousand copies. I mean the actual gold record,
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  Speaker 2: the plaque that sent to an artist to commemorate the achievement,
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  Speaker 2: that looks exactly like a real vinyl twelve inch, except
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  Speaker 2: it's plated gold. Well, you might assume it's a special
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  Speaker 2: copy of the album that hit the milestone, but according
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  Speaker 2: to King ad Rock at the Beastie Boys, you're wrong,
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  Speaker 2: he tells the Conan Needs a Friend podcast. We were
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  Speaker 2: at our studio in California a long time ago. We
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  Speaker 2: had a gold record on the wall, our record Paul's boutique.
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  Speaker 2: So I was looking at it and I could see
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  Speaker 2: it had our label sticker listing nine songs on the side,
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  Speaker 2: but the actual gold record only had four songs. So
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  Speaker 2: we broke the glass and put the record on and
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  Speaker 2: the music with somebody playing piano versions of Barry Manilow.
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  Speaker 2: The Beastie Boys add they don't know if this is
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  Speaker 2: the case with every gold record, but at least with
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  Speaker 2: their Plackett
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