Buying a Gold Record?


What do you make of this?
Blue Oyster Cult
and this?
Pat Benetar

Do these play? Are they better than vinyl?
cdc
You can only play it with a gold record player. I think Goldmund makes one.
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Heard a funny story once from the late John Enthwistle of the Who. One night on a drug fueled bender, he decides to take one of his gold records off the wall, breaks the glass and puts it on his turntable only to find out, its a Barbara Streisand (or some such similar non rock performer) He thought it was hilarious...