At 01:31 PM 8/7/97 -0500, you wrote:
quoted 2 lines Most Important when choosing a listening medium; Vinyl outlasts CDs when>Most Important when choosing a listening medium; Vinyl outlasts CDs when
>bombarded by microwaves. So there! Put a CD in the microwave on hi
power. It
quoted 3 lines won't last 30 seconds. Its really quite a sight if you've never tried it.>won't last 30 seconds. Its really quite a sight if you've never tried it.
> Lots of sparks. Vinyl hold up quite well. I haven't tried DAT or tapes.
> Anyone?
Well just general up keep of cardboard sleeves vinyl beckons too much up
keep for me. I'd rather listen to my music whether it is crap or not
rather than trashing it. I wouldn't want to peel vinyl from my microwave
before I want to make some hot chocolate or pizza. After a nuclear war I'd
rather make music about that experience because that would be one of the
biggest fucking things that could happen in my life, I probably wouldn't be
listening to my records. I know that if my record player and cds were lost
in nuclear war, I could play my records. Here's how, listen up all IDMers
I learned this from Mr. Wizard:
Direction for your very own post-nuclear war record player:
Materials:
1 sewing needle
1 #2 pencil
1 sheet of construction paper
transparent tape
Procedure:
1. Roll the paper into a cone but don't close off the pointed end.
2. Tape the paper cone so it doesn't unfurl.
3. Tape the needle at the pointy end so it kind of extends beyond the cone.
4. Grab your favorite AFX Joyrex vinyl and stab the pencil through the
hole, but not all the way through that it screws up the hole.
5. Spin the pencil/record combo like a top.
6. Place the needle on the groove.
7. Gather friends to chill with you.
This beats sticking your vinyl in the microwave and it doesn't run on
electricity.
Quoth Homer Simpson "Woo hoo!"
Lovingly a future post nuclear music lover,
Rusty