It was once the practice of the BBC to house their recordings on multi-copies of acetate discs and after a set number of plays, to smash the disc and move on to the next copy.

In the 1960s my father knew a guy who worked for the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation and told him what happened to their BBC material. They got Goon Shows on LP. There were four stations in NZ (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin) that took turns playing them, and after they'd been round all of them, they came back to his office. Where he was contractually required to smash them over the edge of his desk.

I imagined those little microgrooves squeaking "You dirty rotten scoundrel, you deaded me!".