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You Need to Hear This Extremely Rare Recording  — The Message — Medium
by thenewgreen

    “Extremely rare” — that phrase sounds so peculiar today.

    With access to infinite bytes of media, describing a digital object as “rare” sticks out like a lumbering anachronism. YouTube — the official home of lumbering anachronisms — excels at these extraordinarily contradictory moments. Here, for instance, are the Beatles, performing a “VERY RARE” rendition of “Happy Birthday”: