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Shopping Bags For Crate Diggers and Vinyl Junkies

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Lately I’ve been hard at work designing and silkscreening cotton/canvas bags for crate diggers and vinyl junkies. I’ve got several designs now, two of which are currently for sale on Etsy. These bags hold any standard size vinyl records from 12-inch double LPs to seven inch singles. These are GREAT for vinyl shopping and convention-going.

One of my biggest complaints about doing record shows is that carrying around your vinyl finds is a major pain unless you’re toting a backpack. These cotton/canvas vinyl record shopping bags are great for shows whether you’re at a horror movie convention or your local record swap.

The images are linked directly to their respective sales pages on Etsy or you can check out the Skull Star Crate Digger’s Vinyl Record Shopping Bag or my personal favorite, the Aleister Crowley Beast 666 Crate Digger Bag pictured below.

If you find these bags are sold out when you click, please get in touch with me directly (jwallace at turntabling dot net) to make arrangements as I  usually have plenty in stock to sell at conventions and shows. Naturally, the vinyl seen here is NOT INCLUDED, heh. Did I mention these are only $9.50 each with free shipping in the USA?

Aleister Crowley Black Magic Recordings Vinyl LP

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Here’s an anomaly; in the early 1900s, the notorious Aleister Crowley, the self-appointed “Beast 666”, recorded himself doing a variety of readings from his writings including his Gnostic Mass, a bit of poetry, and some ritual magick. Today, these recordings have resurfaced (because they’re public domain, now, I’m guessing) as Black Magic Recordings, a vinyl LP released by Cleopatra Records.

Crowley stated on many occasions–including his turn in the witness stand in several of his failed defamation of character lawsuits–that he was staunchly opposed to black magic, so the title of this album is a bit sensationalized and clearly caters to the easily shocked who consider any form of magic to be evil. But this is a fascinating bit of history–Crowley made these recordings on WAX CYLINDERS, so this is one of very few wax recordings (to my knowledge) to make it back into circulation as a retail item, however small the audience might be for it.

Cleopatra is a johnny-come-lately on this set of recordings though, as David Tibet compiled a VERY similar collection of Crowley’s wax cynlinder recordings back in 1986 according to Discogs.com.

It was a very limited release by Current 93, a total of just over 400 released for public sale before the plates were destroyed. The Current 93 release had two interesting features–the first being that the album is a 45RPM on side one, but is meant to be played at 33RPM on side two.

Interesting feature #2–the center hole for the LP was punched, then labeled over. To play the record for the first time, the paper needed to be punctured. There’s no question whether you got a brand new, unplayed copy of THIS record, called The Hastings Archive/The World As Power. And trust me, you’ll WANT to know if you ever find a copy of it for sale–this 12 inch vinyl LP is said to have sold on eBay for over $400 in 2008 from a starting price of $5 according to Popsike.com. Fascinating.

–Joe Wallace

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Support Turntabling–Buy a Limited Edition T-Shirt

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In case you haven’t noticed, Turntabling has an EVIL sense of humor, and that’s the mindset that went into our designs for these two limited-edition Turntabling t-shirts now on sale here. These two designs are only the start–we’ve got more in progress even as I write this. Coming soon, some actual turntable-related designs (we had to get the evil tees out of our system first) and more. All these designs arsweet-innocent-teenagers-tee limited-edition runs and when they’re gone, they’re gone.

These shirts are designed and custom silkscreened right here at Turntabling HQ–it’s all done by the same demented mind behind the blog itself, so you’re getting a wearable work of art when you support Turntabling by purchasing one of these.

Order the Sweet Innocent Teenagers tee for $13 and free shipping within the USA in sizes Small thru XXL.

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…or order the Kiss Me I’m Evil Aleister Crowley tee for $13 and free shipping within the USA.

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All proceeds go toward supporting Turntabling.net, including our next Vinyl Road Rage trip coming soon.