Audiostreet, another CD sales site, used to offer a brilliant rewards points system where effectively you got paid £1 (that you could only spend in the store) for each review you wrote. Curiously, this offer no longer exists :o)
Anyway a few of us decided to see what crap we could get away with writing and still get accepted. In true prank style, we were shocked to find very few controls in place other than a word limit!
Tragically, about 2 years after we posted them, the reviews were deleted, however my friend "The Griffit", the brains behind this whole operation, has helpfully archived them all for your pleasure, and I have mirrored them here to save on his bandwidth. Lovely.
So let's start off with the not-particularly-obvious. Many of the albums for sale on the site had no track listings, so you could make up the names of the tracks and have some fun:
we also tried a bit of topical satire (this was 2000 remember)
Then we started doing some more complicated ones such as this:
But possibly the absolute masterpiece was this last one:
Anyway all much fun, and they gave us bloody money for doing it! *sigh*. Those were the days!