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

http://bridde.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Elbow4.png

http://bridde.com/elbow-cassette-player/

so the tape is exposed while it's moving?

imo everyone who messed around with the lid mechanism on a tape player as a kid to see what would happen when you fucked with the tape while it's playing has an idea of the problems therein

The audio cassette is not just a medium – it’s a cultural icon. Therefore we feel it should not be obscured inside a device, but brought to the forefront of user’s attention. By exposing the cassette to the elements, ELBOW offers a fresh user experience, allowing the listener to directly appreciate the mechanical motion, or even forcibly interrupt playback.

BRIDDE

Branding Identity Design

yeah I don't think I'd carry this around and use it as a normal player like in their pictures

like

"Playback is controlled by a single wheel – turning left from the initial position activates the motor and increases volume, turning in the opposite direction fast-forwards the cassette."

so there's no way to rewind, turn down the volume or shut it off?

ahahaha. design minimalism hits a wall.

xp hey ffwd is just rewind backwards!

It was common in the old days to have only a ffwd and no rewind. On cheap walkmen.

http://images.gr-assets.com/books/1434855617l/872034.jpg

thinking about for 2 seconds now and it's obvious that that thing can't rewind. Still, would be nice to be able to turn down the volume or shut it off.

you can flip the tape over and ffwd, then flip it back. then you have rewind!

and if you increase your distance from the unit, the volume goes down!

i still like it

fwiw it's a concept design that claims to be in "prototype" phase, which is usually code for "this is my project for my design class/a spec design and not something that anyone will make"

behance and similar sites have hundreds of these sorts of projects. not sure i'd take it as a proposal that is going anywhere. nice pictures, though

http://www.factmag.com/2017/02/27/wheel-record-player-vinyl/

In the last few years there’s been an explosion in novelty turntables vying for your affections. We’ve had floating, platterless, vertical and even smartphone-controlled rotating record players, each of which has sought funding on Kickstarter to slake a design demand you didn’t know you had.

Such is the current state of affairs that the introduction of a new turntable that plays records from the bottom up on a rotating wheel hardly raises an eyebrow. But that’s exactly what The Wheel is promising.

Rather than using an external stylus and tonearm, this deck contains all its mechanics within the platter to give the impression of a minimal, spinning record without visual interference. Instead of having buttons on the deck itself, the Wheel is controlled by tweaking the center spindle, and it connects wirelessly to your audio system.

Placed upside down inside the platter, the tonearm and non-replaceable Audio Technica AT95E cartridge tracks the record from beneath, supposedly protecting it from wear, dust and damage. The design also ensures you can use it both horizontally and vertically.

^^^ that's totally awesome! Totally, superfluously, awesome.

non-replaceable Audio Technica AT95E cartridge

on the other hand at least they are using a semi-okay cartridge but still

the whole vertical thing seems like you're really just asking for pitch issues

lol, was about to bold "non-replaceable"

my right speaker sends the left channel of my turntable output to my left speaker via wifi, so my living room is now a shady scam

Story of the year:

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/03/23/521216130/the-most-expensive-record-never-sold

wow

I see some similarities to another artist we know with very high priced work:

"Asked what the record sounded like and how, given Yeager's mercurial anonymity, they had arrived at these prices, Sharpton responded with over 600 words about Yeager's life."

To me it's surprising the most expensive record ever sold was only $15,000. Many comic books and ballball cards have sold for well over $100,000, with the record for each around $2.5 million.

most expensive ever sold _on discogs_

that makes much more sense

This is fascinating, btw:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_valuable_records

Excellent addition to the Florida Man canon.

the picture of him in blackface pretending to be hendrix's son is... something

Because vinyl collecting is for hipsters:

http://www.newsstand.co.uk/i2520396/Zoom/LONG-LIVE-VINYL_NO-1.jpg

So this Yeager guy paid the Discogs fee for the sale (to himself) of that record? That shows a rare, almost admirable level of devotion to this hoax if so

next move: fatally overdose on drugs and arrange for a posthumous release

I imagine the fee was defaulted on, and that’s once reason why Discogs removed it.

finally, a guide to collecting Bowie. cos i want to "collect" Bowie but in reality i only want to get the essential 2 or 3 records.

tell me more about this revolver album

This targeted ad I'm getting bombarded with is pissing me off so much. I can't think of a more vapid, boring idea. Some PDX based brand trying to sell "album cover influenced" plaid shirts holy shit please kill yourselves, fucking idiots.
http://i.imgur.com/Xwr1ZzI.png
http://i.imgur.com/bwwYRBo.jpg

lol those plaid casettes

lol $125

Brooklyn Slim Fit

That is so utterly shameless that it's kind of impressive

That's gotta be some algorithm, right? If it's a person rather than a computer making these connections they should charge thousands per shirt and call it art

I like the 69 Love Songs shirt (while agreeing that it looks nothing like the cover to 69 Love Songs, obv)

an app where you take a picture of your shits before flushing and it sends you a $50 closest cover match record with inset of the shit you sent us

you will own so many copies of Further Down The Spiral

there was a time, the used cd stores could have really used that app

That is so utterly shameless that it's kind of impressive

Indeed.

I have a shirt I bought at Ross a few years ago because the pattern resembled the cover of "No New York" :/

In the 80s I had a blue and white plaid flannel that I adored because the squares were so large it looked like something Jaime Hernandez would draw for a Love & Rockets character.

https://frivolousnow.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/img1951.jpg

^Maggie Minus Garfield

haha

Some prime Alan Partridge in this article
http://bedfordandbowery.com/2017/06/new-east-village-record-store-will-be-like-flight-club-but-for-records/

"Sorge says the impetus for the store is partly a response to the “vinyl resurgence” underway, and also a sense that contemporary music is not well stocked in record stores, which tend to be dominated by a “pony-tailed, Dylan-loving old guard” which caters heavily to Led Zeppelin and Beatles fans but not those of Nirvana or the Pixies or more recent work."

I was hoping they would say something like Foo Fighters : Only the band Nirvana could've been.

"They’ve been posting finds to their Instagram as they go — “everything from Nas to Jawbreaker to De La Soul and a bunch of stuff we picked up in Japan like the Smiths and the White Stripes and Nirvana and the Roots. We’re all over the place, as long as it’s contemporary, and I use ‘contemporary’ very loosely. Indie rock or anything past the ’80s.”

The shop will be located at 221 E. 10th Street, between First and Second Avenue. The storefront will be small and intimate — “a little sub-street-level place,” said Sorge — and the hope is that it will serve as a community and gathering place, “like Flight Club, but for records.”

Sorge and Porges are eschewing the dusty, rummage-bin atmosphere of the stereotypical record shop in favor of a cleaner, more modern aesthetic. Boles Studio, which supplied furniture for Etsy’s offices among others, is building the record bins."