Origins of “The Derek Tape,” ’90s viral phone call recording between record store clerk and hesher – Boing Boing

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Origins of “The Derek Tape,” ’90s viral phone call recording between record store clerk and hesher

Boing Boing readers of a certain pre-internet age will recall when viral jokes sometimes took the form of prank phone calls passed around on cassette tapes.

via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/10/28/origins-of-the-derek-tape.html

Derek does most of the talking (there’s a good reason it’s not called “The Kurt Tape”), much of which concerns Derek’s reasons for wanting to put his neighbor, Terry, in the hospital, and his intention to do just that. Once the conversation turns to metal lore, though, and Derek’s enthusiasm kicks into high gear, it is hard not to get carried away with him as he talks about the important things in life