Steven Center wrote:
quoted 18 lines At 11:49 PM 5/21/98 +0000, you wrote:> At 11:49 PM 5/21/98 +0000, you wrote:
> >I've just got hold of the Push Button Objects 12" and it's the
> >thinnest vinyl I own, I think. And there's a lot of surface noise.
> >Have I got a duff one or are they all cheap pressings?
>
> my copies of both 02 and 03 on Chocolate Industries are on very flimsy
> vinyl, so my guess is that you do not have a duff one. my p.b.o. 12" has
> all kinds of scratchy-staticy noise at the beginning of side 1, amongst
> other scattered shoddy surface noises. my funkstorung 12" is not as bad,
> but not too much better. i can't figure out why they would press their
> music on such cheap vinyl, as there is no shortage of places to get quality
> vinyl pressed here in the u.s.. i sure would have been disappointed with a
> test pressing as thin as these things...they are practically flexi-discs.
> also, i sure hope the chocolate folks are not paying more for thin plastic
> sleeves as opposed to plain cardboard ones, as they provide little
> protection for the vinyl and very little added benefit (unless you count the
> asthetics, but that would really only come in to play if their releases were
> pressed on colored vinyl, imho, and they are not.)
well i have 2 copies of the pbo. 1 is on thin black vinyl, the other is on
marbled grey thin vinyl. (same songs) not too noisy, but i agree that they
probably wont hold up for long.
cl