Hey, it's Bob Boyland from All Songs Considered.

I wanted to share something I thought was cool.

The team of NPR's Planet Money received a cassette tape in the mail recently.

It was an unreleased song from 1975 about inflation

and it inspired them to start a record label and release the song.

Here's the Planet Money team to tell the tale.

This is Planet Money from NPR.

So the other day we got this cassette tape in the mail, dusty, old.

And someone had written a word on this cassette that we are very interested in.

The word inflation.

So we put it in a cassette player and...

One, two, three, four.

You know, with the food and rent going up there then.

It's a song.

A cool one about inflation.

Inflation.

It's taken over all great nations.

People stop what you're doing

and listen to what I have to say.

Inflation is in the nation.

And it's so good, right?

A little giant, funky, kind of muddy.

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