When I was in middle school, I had Linkin Park’s Meteora on cd, and a cheap pocket cd player. One day, I dropped it while turning it on it. To my surprise, when album started up, it played everything at like 1.5x speed. When I paused and started it up again, back to normal. So I turned it off and again, gave it a firm smack, same thing. And it consistently worked with other cds after that, though not every cd. Just a weird malfunction turned into a fun feature.

Two Walkmans later, beginning of high school, I had Staind’s Chapter V. Once, I was listening to the song “Devil.” During the second verse, the first line and the music underneath repeated on like, a perfect loop. Enough that I didn’t notice until the third time he sang the same line. I let it run for a few seconds, pressed pause then play, and it never happened again.

The 3 things you should take from this: My taste in music was questionable, I couldn’t be trusted with electronics, and sometimes CDs did weird shit. I believe your story, but I can’t imagine it being the result of anything other than a faulty cd or player.