Shady scams and other silly business ideas to take advantage of earnest new vinyl collectors

Yeah there was the scotch tape discovering.

discovery I mean

“It was so frustrating,” he says. “It was like, ‘Great, I love that you guys made a song, but I would like to sit down for longer than three and a half minutes.’”

i make this joke every 24 hours, but... what if there was a technology that permitted you to play EIGHTY MINUTES OF UNINTERRUPTED MUSIC and you could even skip back and forth among songs without having to get up and move the needle?

i think we really are through the rabbit hole, folks. it's like the CD never existed.

haha for me it was the opposite - "I can record over these old tapes if I block the holes?!?"

― sleeve, Tuesday, October 27, 2015 7:27 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, THIS was the real hack. you could even give your friends old copies of U2 cassettes where you had overdubbed every other track with negativland. not that i know anyone who did that.

do these garbage humans even realize how full of shit their enterprises are? i feel like that would be better than if they actually believed in what they were doing.

Zev was followed by Come On Everyone: 29 Ska-Licious Tracks in 1998 and The Watermelon Collection the year after.

What the Jesus fuck

“I wished somebody would just take all these 7-inches from upcoming bands and put them into a full-length record,” he says. “And usually when you think, ‘I wish somebody would do something,’ it’s not stuff that you can actually do. But I was like, ‘Hey, I actually might be one of the better people to do that.’”

Labels have been doing this for years, they're called compilations.

And if this ridiculous shit couldn't make it

http://i67.tinypic.com/m6k8z.jpg

I have a feeling you're comps of singles by bands nobody gives a shit about might wind up selling for $1.50 each in the not too distant future.

your, dammit

Savage Progress
Torch Song
One O'Clock Gang
Sunset Gun
Kantata
The Precious Few

Who the bogging hell were these losers? Maybe an ex band member will find the thread and let us know

Discogs have about five different "Precious Few"

Torch Song was William Orbit actually, Discogs research tells me. The rest of them were typical mid-80s tax-loss major label fodder, with the exception of Kantata who were highlife.

There must be some shady scam to be done wherein this crap becomes £££-worthy, can't quite think of one right now though

I had a one o'clock gang album - scottish band, think one of them was briefly in simple minds, wasn't very good tbh

hey, if it wasn't for Debut i never would have found out about Beltane Fire when i was a teen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jddg2PcVxb4

Beltane fire were hilarious, but they were no Jesse Rae

Curious about the cocktail recipe bundled with this: http://vinylmeplease.com/record-of-the-month/

Savage Progress were fucking great. Big influence on Larry Heard apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUd9ZAybuFs

wow, yeah, i love that.

i really liked this song that was on one of my debut 10 inches. style council + prefab sprout. prefab council housing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H_kzkJKLFI

Big Sound Authority probably opened up for Carmel and Roman Holiday a lot.

also the first time i ever heard starry nowhere. top five monochrome set for sure.

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Debut-LP-Magazine-Issue-11/release/917525

feels like thread spirit:

http://www.suck.uk.com/products/mixtapeusbdrive/

That's somewhere between thread topic and Urban Outfitters novelty item crap.

The youth of today appal me

My brother bought me one of these for xmas a few years back, though I've never used it

It seems like an attempt to negotiate some of the intimacy of a physical object into this non-physical media world. I'd still rather burn someone a CD, though.

If like that more if you could play it on a cassettee deck. Does such a thing exist?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ramozz-Player-Tape-Cassette-Adapter/dp/B00E5Y32MK

that tape/mp3 thing has pictures of record arms on it for some inexplicable reason.

haha, indeed

was able to buy a syl johnson reissue for $5 on sale at UO today. might as well get my piece of this scam.

of course the same reissue can be had for a bit over $10 shipped new from discogs, but the sticker was $19!

Any Syl Johnson —reissue or no— is worth $5 at least.

I'm glad you agree! I tend to feel slightly scammed while I'm in there among the Hunger Games OST picture discs, even if I'm quite sure that I got a good deal.

Hey man, a deal's a deal, regardless of where it's had.

has this been on here? they are all a blur by now.

http://theedit.replyyes.com/

beastie boys, nirvana, miles davis. these are really ultimate choices.

always good to discover new things thru technology

http://www.stereogum.com/1850376/columbia-house-to-relaunch-with-vinyl/news/?utm_source=sc-fb&utm_medium=ref&utm_campaign

Ok I just browsed through the latest massive Music Unlimited I have decided that the people buying audiophile dollar bin reissues need to pay more income tax or be forced to do community service or something. I retract my earlier half-assed defenses of rich music consumers.

Music Direct, I mean

Music Direct catalog

"My dad is STILL waiting for his 8-track copy of Boz Scaggs' "Slow Dancer""

Got a chuckle out this comment.

Gawd my dad probably has 7 or 8 copies of that on various formats lol

hahaha brimstead, what put you over the edge?

lol it probably was the WHOLE PAGE dedicated to 80s soundtracks that broke the camel's back

it might have been 2 pages, it was disgusting

haha yeah i've seen those cropping up more and more. hard to really imagine who's buying them. the one thing i'll say is that at least a lot of them are albums i don't actually see around a ton, maybe because nobody wants them. nobody needs them anyway but at least it's not something where literally the same store has two totally listenable copies of the damn thing for $5 or less, and five more copies in the back.

they would have you pay $$$ for 200g pressings of comedy stereo demonstration records from the 50s.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61R8X6584SL._SX300_.jpg

Dead-quiet 180g 2xLP, cut from analog tape and painstakingly audiophile-remastered with the participation of original 'Gangster' and oboe-repairman David Stearlett. No collection is complete without this seminal 1958 release which virtually defined the Miller sound and has been namechecked by countless contemporary recording artists. A steal at $28.99!

$29 would be a steal in audiophile land. Slap $60 on it!