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Nov 2022
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Planet Money Records Vol. 1: Earnest Jac...

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Our friends at Planet Money are trying something we thought All Songs listeners might find as fascinating as we do: They're trying to start their own record label to release a single song. It's a song about inflation, recorded in 1975... and never released until now.

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