The green day Dookie was broken into Game Boy carts, toothbrushes and other unusual formats

Green Day Dookie is an all-time album counter and, if you’ve been lucky enough to catch the band on the road this summer, you’ll know that the trio sounds as good as ever. The sound quality, however, was not at the forefront of the band’s latest release: demasters of all Dookie the song is in funny and outdated formats to mark the record of 30 years.

While some classic albums tend to get memorials for big celebrations, Green Day (with the help of an art studio called Brain) went into lo-fi territory by re-releasing music in obsolete and/or inappropriate formats in very limited editions. As a result, you can hear what “Basket Case” sounds like with Big Mouth “Billie” Bass, listen to “Welcome to Paradise” on a Game Boy cartridge and enjoy (or not) “When I Come Around” from the wax cylinder.

Other formats in which demasters appear include the answering machine, toothbrush, animatronic stuffed animal, floppy disc, doorbell, Fisher Price record, HitClip (remember those?) and, keep up with my beating heart, MiniDisc. Meanwhile, “All By Myself,” a love song sung by drummer Tré Cool, actually sounds good on a jukebox.

You can hear what each demaster sounds like on the Dookie Demastered website. But if you want to own one of them, you will need to be lucky. There are only between one and 50 of each discounted format available and priced between $19 and $99, but thankfully it’s not first-come, first-served. There is a random drawing and you will get a chance to buy one of the items if your name is drawn from the hat.

Demastering is becoming the norm, especially in video games, but this is just a weird way to listen to an important album in punk rock Dookie it was. It would be great to have an X-ray record of “Coming Clean” in my collection, though. (On tape, Green Day released a deluxe album of the decade.)