Last year saw vinyl records outsell digital releases for the first time in 10 years, and now an American band are creating a version of the format that would probably outsell even faster.
The aptly named band Slightly Stoopid have pressed two vinyl records using $6,000 (around £4,800) worth of extra-resinous bubble hash, a strain of draw that involves using a bucket of cold water to freeze and break off the glands from the plant that produce the THC, named trichome.
John Phillips, the band’s manager, said “It’s all about putting two old-school vintage mediums together,” explains Phillips. “Vinyl is an old-school medium, and that’s how we feel about hashish, too.”
The records are titled Dabbington and cost an extra $1,000 to press and master. Phillips said the first one had a “passable sound” but didn’t last very long as “the office potheads couldn’t help chipping away at it for their own enjoyment.” Fair enough.
A second prototype produced “questionable audio” but the band are persevering, creating a third disc which is to be auctioned off for charity or kept as “an art piece”.