2008 goes away this week, and with 2009 comes a brand new Turntbling.net. What is in store for this space? Coming soon...a glorious vinyl podcast and more. Thanks for reading, see you in the new year! J. Wallace Turntabling.net

Got an e-mail forward today with a massive list of retailers that are scaling back, closing stores or filing bankruptcy. Not a SINGLE musical instruments vendor, record shop or downloadable media enterprise was on the list. That's not entirely scientific, I know, especially since Virgin and Tower got their collective asses kicked already. But I predict that in an age of massive economic trouble, people will still cling to the music--maybe more than ever. In short, VIVA LA VINYL! I just dropped some nice coin on German disco cheese, and a glorious Brazilian post-punk album. More on that stuff later. Looks like Turntabling.net is back up, eh?

Don't worry, we're still kicking. Just working out some business and trying to get some concepts working properly. Turntabling is still all about the vinyl, but I am contemplating the MP3 posts as well...updates forthcoming. It's been well over a month since anything hit this space but Turntabling is reviving. Stay tuned.

While I do love a bit of the old vintage George Clinton, that's not the reason I bought this piece of vinyl. Instead, I bought it because the whole thing is massive "borrowing" (with appropriate thanks in the liner notes) of Church of the SubGenius schtick. The center graphic, with Clinton's face over the legend "Inspired madman or complete jackass?" is classic Ivan Stang. I have yet to listen to this, the graphics were enough to make me get it...as with many of my vinyl purchases, when you're flipping through the bargain used bin, any strange thing that grabs your eye is enough to justify buying. That's how I got Pop Against Pope, which I will have to review and post MP3s for next week, once I've relocated it in the stacks. It's also how I discovered 4 Out of 5 Doctors, Pictures on a String, Comateens, and the much reviled Lung Overcoat This George Clinton album gets high ratings by some fans, so I am hoping it's a roof-shaker. Of course, I'm the guy who can listen to Funkadelic's "DooDoo Chasers" more than once, so maybe in this case my judgement is a bit faulty. How can you NOT be ...