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Voyager's Golden Record For Aliens Now Available On SoundCloud
An anonymous reader writes: For years you've been able to listen to the sounds recorded on the golden records carried by the twin Voyager spacecraft online but NASA just made it a bit easier. The orginization just uploaded the recordings to SoundCloud. Now you can listen to a continuous stream of clips instead of clicking back and forth to hear the different tracks.
There's no music on this disc, only greetings by unknown people who probably signed off to NASA anyway.
Wrong. They even put Glenn Gould on the disk so Sony most likely will be selling records and interstellar performance rights to the aliens who come to earth to find out who the hell played the piano like that and what why it has evil discordant humming in the background!
My favourite piece is the gavotte en rondeaux from partita 3 of Bach which I play on the guitar. But as far as the RIAA and US .gov revisions of who owns music goes WHO GIVES A SHIT? They are the worst bunch of fuckwad backward minded asshole aliens on this or any planet IMO. In a few hundred years the truly great music performances of this planet will most likely only be available on the voyageur space craft.
This message was not sent from an iPhone because Peter Sellers really was a deviated prevert without a dime for the call