Pixies' Surfer Rosa Goes Gold

One of the latest records to go gold (signifying sales of 500,000) isn’t by a new band that’s burning up the modern-radio airwaves. Alt-rock legends the Pixies recently received a gold record for their groundbreaking 1988 album Surfer Rosa.

Although it took seven years for the record to achieve this status, it’s the band’s second release to do so. Doolittle, the 1989 follow-up to Surfer Rosa, also achieved gold standing in 1995.

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