Nope, we haven't finally gone mad... This sound (a C-64 datasette, see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Datasette.ogg) is a part of the Cynicism Management novel (published by River Boat Books & corona/samizdat & available in all major e-book stores except for Amazon). Most songs that appear in the novel are available here (https://soundcloud.com/cynicism-management), while additional three tracks by Ray Kosmick can be found on https://soundcloud.com/ray-kosmick. For more info about the project and the entire playlist, head to http://boripraper.eu/portfolio/cynicism-management.
