From the March/April 1995 edition of Option:
What looks like acid but sounds like techno? Philip Gaines
Baldwin, 20, of Rockwall, Texas, learned the answer to this
riddle the hard way. Last July, Baldwin was driving to see
his girlfriend in a nearby town when police stopped him for
speeeding. After a search of his car turned up a copy of
Plastikman's "Sheet One" album, he was arrested on charges
of possessing a controlled substance. The police were
displeased by the CD's perforated artwork, which is
designed to resemble a sheet of blotter acid. After more
than five days in jail, Baldwin was released on $5,000
bail, facing second-degree felony charges which carried a
maximum of more than 20 years in prison and $10,000 in
fines. Naturally, lab tests proved the CD booklet
contained no LSD and the charges were dropped. Richie
Hawtin, the brain behind Plastikman, was shoced to learn of
the arrest. "I've heard of people pretending the blotter
was real and selling it, and I know people who made it
real", he says, "so I guess it's ironic that he got picked
up and it wasn't."
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