stackyFACTSThe ultimate test of a music fan's patience and technical knowledge.
The ultimate test of a music fan's patience and technical knowledge. Some artists utilized the 'pregab' space on a CD—the silent area technically located before Track 1 actually begins. To hear these deeply hidden bonus songs, listeners had to hit play, immediately hold down the rewind button, and scroll backward into the negative time of the disc, essentially hacking their own stereo for a three-minute acoustic demo.
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