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Gary Numan on Vinyl Justice

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If you’ve seen any episodes of Vinyl Justice, you know just how funny record collecting musicians can be. After the Frank Black episode, I didn’t think it could get much funnier, but it does. In this episode the Bobbies invade the home and record cabinet of synth legend Gary Numan to discover a whole collection of embarassing titles.

Seeing Gary Numan dancing like a preying mantis on crack AND playing a “Cars” riff on the teeniest keyboard in the world is PRICELESS. The Simple Minds guitar-a-long sequence is equally scary.

The Gary Numan Vinyl Justice episode was not embeddable, but is still viewable and really must be seen to be believed.

WTF Album Covers: Lordi Hardrock Hallelujah

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Before you say a DAMN THING, you have to burn this fact directly into your cerebral cortex and try to recover your sanity before proceeding: This band from Finland, Lordi, are the 2006 winners of the EUROVISION SONG CONTEST with this.

There’s nothing I can say that will make this picture any funnier. Just LOOK AT IT! If that isn’t quite enough for you, there’s always this video. Fear the reaper. Remember kids, you too can dress up like Cookie Monster death rockers with oatmeal face makeup and win the Eurovision Song Contest…as long as you gargle with gravel and orange juice first.

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Cleaning Vinyl Records…If You’re Really Brave

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I can’t get into the notions I keep seeing on YouTube when it comes to how to clean vinyl records. Steam and wood glue seem to be popular with some, but I refuse to inflict such punishments on my record collection. I present this video as a curiosity…but if you’re REALLY tempted to give this a shot, may I suggest trying it on the most disposable record in your collection as a test first?


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