My old newsroom mentor Bob Jones once advised against making claims that something is “the very first”, the “largest” or in this case, “the very smallest” anything–because inevitably someone else will do some digging and find something even smaller, older, etc.
So I now consider such claims to be a challenge–I’m on a hunt to find the very smallest vinyl record player known to man. Is this it? I somehow doubt it, but let’s call it a contender:
–Joe Wallace
It was a great trip, and many thanks to all who supported Turntabling by purchasing some of our rare, hard-to-find, and just plain awesome vinyl and CDs. Posts resume soonest, but in the meantime don’t miss the Turntabling booth at Horrorhound Weekend and Cinema Wasteland, both coming up very soon–details and dates to come.
Turntabling is on the road starting today, Tuesday March 6, 2012. We’re bound for Days of the Dead and will be selling vinyl and CDs there all weekend long. Lots of rare, obscure, hard-to-find soundtracks, 80s goth/industrial/unclassifiable, and much more.
As always, to see the latest from our road trip and from the the Days of the Dead show, join Turntabling on Facebook as there are quite a lot of pics and posts that always happen when we’re in road warrior mode.
See you at the show!
Apparently there is a booming business on eBay selling cereal box records. As in, music recorded on flexi disc-format and included in the packaging for breakfast cereal. I found a reference to these on the ultra-fun Frank’s Vinyl Museum, and did a bit of digging. I turned up a big pile of results for cereal box records on eBay. Would you believe that some of these sell for as much as $90 USD?
There must be a collector’s market for these if they’re selling for between 40 and 90 bucks a pop…but wouldn’t it be awesome if bands started doing this again NOW? Imagine an Air cereal box-only release on the back of Sugar Crisp, or perhaps Trent Reznor exclusives on a box of Count Chocula…Motorhead doing Captain Crunch? Someone would have to invent a new type of breakfast food for the Godspeed! You Black Emperor version–perhaps a box of crunchy peanut butter, chocolate chips, and chili powder.
