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Thursday, February 23, 2006

# Posted 11:46 PM by Patrick Belton  

WIKIPEDIA MOMENT FOR THE DAY:
British heavy metal band Judas Priest was sued over a 1985 suicide pact made by two Nevada schoolboys. One of the two boys survived, and the lawsuit by their families claimed that a 1978 Judas Priest album contained hidden messages. The words "Do it" were allegedly audible when the record was played backwards, and the letters S U I (supposedly for "suicide") are in the sleeve artwork. The case was dismissed .... Judas Priest members also commented that if they wanted to insert subliminal commands in their music, killing their fans would be counterproductive, and they would prefer to insert the command "Buy more of our records."

(from article titled 'Backwards Message', which I came across in the course of my thesis research, at roughly 6 am)
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Thesis research on Wikipedia eh?
 
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