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colored vinyl - my $0.02 (was: pressings)

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1994-01-12 21:25Terre Thaemlitz colored vinyl - my $0.02 (was: pressings)
1994-01-12 21:30Jon Drukman Re: colored vinyl - my $0.02 (was: pressings)
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1994-01-12 21:25Terre ThaemlitzIt seems to me that the cleanest colored vinyl is the smooth and clear translucent stuff,
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Terre Thaemlitz
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Wed, 12 Jan 1994 16:25:52 -0500
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It seems to me that the cleanest colored vinyl is the smooth and clear translucent stuff, like the red reissues of Vince Guaraldi jazz albums from Fantasy Records, and the translucent yellow remix of Yello's "I love you". Everything else is crunchy as hell. I think this confirms drukman's statement about non-recylcled vinyl. But as others have pointed out, this type of colored vinyl tends to be the exception. Alot of this has to do with the fact that people think colored vinyl is cool, but in general they don't want to have to pay more for it. This means that people wanting to press on "special" vinyl need to cut costs in order to have something sell for about the same price as regular black vinyl, which means poor recycled vinyl and colored dyes mixed from powders rather than liquids. I'm having a hard enough time trying to get stores to carry my tracks pressed on heavier-than-usual black virgin vinyl because they cost more. I can't imagine how much they would have cost me if I pressed them on quality colored vinyl! You get what you pay for! TERRE_THAEMLITZ@QMCUMC.MAIL.CORNELL.EDU | ( ( ( o ) ) ) | | I'm the transmitter - give information. |X| You're the antenna, catching vibrations. |X| -Kraftwerk |X| |X| _|X|_
1994-01-12 21:30Jon DrukmanTerre Thaemlitz writes: >Alot of this has to do with the fact that people think colored vi
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Jon Drukman
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Wed, 12 Jan 94 13:30:51 PST
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Terre Thaemlitz writes:
quoted 2 lines Alot of this has to do with the fact that people think colored vinyl>Alot of this has to do with the fact that people think colored vinyl >is cool, but in general they don't want to have to pay more for it.
Ask the pressing plant to do your stuff on the end of someone else's color run. That way you don't have to pay anything extra for the colored vinyl. Of course, you have to wait an indeterminate amount of time and you don't know what color it will be (although you can say "wait for someone to do a bluish order" - but who knows when the next one might be...).... just an alternative for those of you who want to do color on the cheap. Jon Drukman jdrukman%dlsun87@oracle.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.