I’m not sure if we’re thinking about the same thing, but I remember Flexidiscs would come in magazines as a freebie.
I have one of these that has a shortened edit of “So What” by Ministry on it. Is it worth anything?
[reply]I’m not sure if we’re thinking about the same thing, but I remember Flexidiscs would come in magazines as a freebie.
I have one of these that has a shortened edit of “So What” by Ministry on it. Is it worth anything?[/reply]
Probably not much.
It really depends on how many were made and how much anyone cares about the particular band/artist.
If it’s with the original magazine/packaging, etc. it’ll have a better shot of getting you a bit of bus money, but just a piece of floppy plastic with 1/2 a song on it probably won’t be a big hit at the auction house.
Best way to deal with it if you want to get rid of it is to just put it on Ebay, hype it up with some fancy writing and photos and see if you get any bites. I wouldn’t expect more than $5 at the most, though, if you’re lucky.
Minidiscs and DATs were competing to be the Next Big Thing in re-writeable audio in the mid/late '90s. Neither took off on a consumer level (burnable CDs were already becoming the rage), but DAT was the industry standard in professional audio for a long time.
Personally, I preferred mini-discs. I thought they sounded just as good and were a lot easier to use.
There’s a somewhat more tangled web of events that led to DAT never taking off as a ‘consumer’ format.
Basically, the jerks at the record industry’s lobbies (R.I.A.A. in the U.S., and C.R.I.A. in Canada) successfully demanded that manufacturers of DAT hardware put a “spoiler” device in that hardware to prevent the copying of the tapes.
The result of adding this “spoiler” was to make the hardware prohibitive to buy, for just about everyone except a niche audio geek market, and of course people who were using them in production studios.
MiniDiscs recorded at 48khz instead of the CD standard 44.1, which was cool, though they did have to compete with burnable CDs as you mention.
I have a crapload of old 60’s MAD Magazines that have flexidiscs in them.
And I used to have a small batch of those cereal box records back in the day too, Gary.
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE BUBBLE POP RECORDS???
I swear I’m not making this up, but it was a small record made of fairly hard bubble gum (think baseball gum). YOu could actually play a song before you ate it.
I bet I’m going to spend all weekend now looking for evidence of this on the internet somewhere.
Please, someone old back me up on this and confirm that i’m not the only one that remembers this.
Okay, I had the name wrong.
CHU-BOPS!!!
Wow, that is some serious pop music.
They had some good stuff . . . Judas Priest, KISS, Cyndi Lauper . . .
Let me see if I can “kick it up a notch” with another entry into the goofy audio format sweepstakes.
Maybe my favorite of all these has to be the “roentgenizdat” or album bootlegs that were etched onto discarded X-ray film. What is truly mind-blowing is that there were underground discotheques in the Soviet Union with entire catalogs of these things.
[url http://www.iheartungulates.com/2011/09/rock-on-ribs-the-roentgenizdat.html]A gallery is here, though a little searching may bring up better ones.
It’s great that more than one example looks exactly like a TMIATTTT picture disc.
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Wow, that is some serious pop music.
They had some good stuff . . . Judas Priest, KISS, Cyndi Lauper . . .[/reply]
I remember these…have the Priest…British Steel one. I might still have some of the covers.
Okay, I had the name wrong.
CHU-BOPS!!!
Damn. Just the mention of corn syrup and “certified color” puts me in a rockin’ mood!!!
Too bad they never made a Chu-Bops record of MC Pee Pants’ [url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diybDrSohHI]“I Want Candy.” Would have been the ideal format.
I found a list/store for all the Chu-Bops.
Judas Priest seems to be in demand!
Never knew those existed. How bad were they for the needle?
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Probably about the worst thing you could possibly put on your record needle (or for the next record). It was GUM, haha! We were too young, careless, and stupid to really pay attention, but . . . yeah, it’s a piece of sugar/gum/candy that you’re playing on a piece of hi-fidelity stereo equipment.
I’ve never heard of this before, but it is truly a horror that could’ve only come from the 80’s.
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They were the Sherman Tanks of record players, Gary. I had one for a while. It came in that little suitcase with the buckle latch and you would just open up the case and plug it in and you were ready to rock out with “Hokey Pokey”, “Old McDonald”, or whatever other iron-clad hits you had with you.
Lots of Pac-Man Fever and The Dinosaur Record played on this bad boy. I got too much fun out of playing everything at 33.
The new remix is out.
I haven’t listened to it yet, but I noticed this in the intro thingy:
“Week #8 Lesson Unlearned RemiXXX, lots of stuff in the works, you all saw a photo of me and an old friend catching up posted online recently and the reception was amazing.”
What is he talking about?
The new remix is out.
I haven’t listened to it yet, but I noticed this in the intro thingy:
“Week #8 Lesson Unlearned RemiXXX, lots of stuff in the works, you all saw a photo of me and an old friend catching up posted online recently and the reception was amazing.”
What is he talking about?
A pic of him and Jello posted to FB…
A pic of him and Jello posted to FB…
And looked drunk/high off his ass. So much for rehab.