What's wrong?
Nothing, can you just flip the record?
Flip it, flip it, flip it.
Can't you just put on a playlist next time?
Don't tell me how to cum.
Was it really worth 185 dollars?
Couldn't you tell?
I could tell you could tell.
This could take a couple nights,
I might just crash in a motel.
When are we gonna finish our conversation?
I don't wanna wait forever.
When I get back.
Promise.
I'll call you if I need an assist.
You know, before the internet, I'd be your Girl Friday.
Now I'm just your old lady coolbot.
Hey!
Son of a bitch.
When you call heads, you get the head.
Aw, scrotal.
I'm just gonna.
Yeah.
Perry.
Perry!
Yeah?
You break it, you buy it.
Negative look.
Shoot, you gotta be fucking kidding me.
No way!
Do we have a deal?
My former life.
That's you?
Yeah.
You know we only pressed like 50 of these,
and they were long gone.
As far as I knew there was only
one collector that had a copy
and he was never gonna let it go.
That son of a bitch didn't even care about the music,
just cared that it was the only pressing.
Wait, how did you?
5k is as high as my client will go.
I'd say that plus that ain't a deal you're gonna get online.
The one and only...
Key number three.
We good?
Those too?
That's an extra hundred.
Who is it?
Etta Price.
I honestly, no offense,
I did not actually expect you to find this.
It only took six months.
Wanna hear it?
If I had to choose 'tween the money
and hearing an incredible record
that almost nobody had heard before,
I'd choose the record.
Really?
Yeah.
Over money?
Yeah.
If it can be heard then I gotta hear it.
Otherwise, what's the point in having ears?
So, hypothetically,
let's say there's this incredible record
that almost nobody's ever heard, right?
Nobody even knows what's on it.
It might not even be real, but you're asked to find it.
It can be a total fucking waste of your time.
So how do you know it's even worth hearing?
Well if nobody has ever heard it
then it could sound like anything.
Yeah, so it could be terrible.
Or it could be incredible.
If it's anything then it's everything.
You know this record is Key three.
Did you know there's a one and two?
Varying pressings of the same music,
but apparently somehow different, each of 'em.
You want me to find 'em?
Private collections.
They ain't selling, trust me.
But the guy who told about the Key records
told me about something even more unique.
He told me about a single copy of another
record pressed by Lyle Litten
was never released.
I think that these three Key records
are supposed to be played with it at the same time
and it makes a new kind of sound,
something nobody in the fucking world has ever heard.
That sounds like something I'd wanna hear.
Well if you could find it
maybe we could convince the
other collectors to pool our resources,
if it exists.
You okay?
I'm gonna find it.
And we're gonna listen.
Why'd you bag this?
You know you're not a detective, right?
Soberin was listening to it when
he turned into a crumb cake, so maybe it's relevant.
Alright, how about this?
You get us some coffee.
If I'm not done typing up the murder weapon
by the time you get back, the coffee's on me.
I can't find very much.
I've heard of it, I know it.
There's gotta be something.
Do you remember how?
No, it's way back in there.
Most I got is from a comment section
on an audiophile site, 2003.
It's just a little blurb on a list
of rare records this guy is looking for.
Nobody references it down thread.
Maybe you read that.
What's it say?
Hello?
Litten Lacquer, an unfinished pressing
that Lyle Litten was allegedly in the process
of mastering to acetate lacquer
when he died of a heart attack in 1987.
Who's Lyle Litten?
Pressed a lotta records in the 80s.
There's nothing else?
It just says, "Under no circumstances
"should anyone actually play it."
One red vinyl record, black label,
plain white sleeve,
a couple interesting markings in the center area.
Hello, little numbers.
Done and done.
Hot streak.
Gotta be a record.
Etta, you can't find something that doesn't exist.
He offered me 10 times my normal rate just to look.
Do you know how much I
make tucking stupid server farm?
I can't, we can't do this
if I'm just gonna be a housewife.
Fine, whatever.
Does this mean we're talking about it?
Etta?
Burnett!
Help!
Anyone!
Please.
Help!