I have been informed that my college's radio station no longer has turntables

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(10:10:21) WIZARD IS HUNGRY: WILL U PLAY MY 7" ON YOUR RADIO SHOW?
(10:10:47) RADIOBABE: um. maybe.
(10:10:52) WIZARD IS HUNGRY: :(
(10:11:00) WIZARD IS HUNGRY: it has me making cat noises
(10:11:04) WIZARD IS HUNGRY: and drumming!
(10:11:19) WIZARD IS HUNGRY: i'm going to put a sample of it online tonight
(10:11:39) RADIOBABE: well (a) i dont even have my show yet. (b) i'm gonna have a cohost, so he gets some say in this too. and (c) i'm pretty sure they've taken the turntabkles away...
(10:11:48) RADIOBABE: *turntables
(10:12:05) WIZARD IS HUNGRY: jesus christ
(10:12:12) WIZARD IS HUNGRY: SACRILIDGE
(10:12:14) WIZARD IS HUNGRY: JHISDJWDH
(10:12:40) RADIOBABE: i know. the radio bigwigs are total fascists.
(10:12:44) WIZARD IS HUNGRY: wow
(10:12:54) WIZARD IS HUNGRY: i am so glad i am not a part of that bullshit
(10:13:24) RADIOBABE: yeah, its real lame right now. they're totally scared of the FCC.

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

(10:15:13) RADIOBABE: its not even just that. the turntables were taken away due to "vandalism." the vandalism in question was apparently that someone wrote "turntable 1" and "turntable 2" on them...

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

(10:15:44) RADIOBABE: and at the moment, al the summer programs have had to be pre-recroded, which is perhaps the dumbest thing ever.

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Increasingly in terms of storage (and the relative amount of (non-)space college radio stations have) there's a certain sense to going digital for new releases straight up -- but so many stations have or can have a brilliant backlog of vinyl reaching back decades now that this would still be a dumb move.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks to university radio vinyl backlog I have 12" copies of "Lazarus" by the Boo Radleys and "Blue" by Bark Psychosis. Loss or turntables makes Jimmbobby JimmyK'KANG sad.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

UNLESS IT MEANS I CAN HAVE YR VINYLS CHRS LUV.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

If we liquidate the record library Im taking a cube van back east to plunder before the SallyAnn gets the rest.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I once had to do a show with only one CD player, as the turntables had been "liberated" the night beforehand.

― earlnash, Monday, 16 August 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

We had ours bolted in pretty hardcore as back in the 80s they covered a fair bit of the wiring. Back in the days of our ancient board.
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It's about the cleanest the place got since we went FM.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

jon, i suggest you buy a portable turntable - a califone or summat - and just play records on it while holding the mic next to the speaker. for every show.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I am not on the radio station

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

THe vandalism was probably either attempted scratching or some audiophile twit bringing his own needle.

― Huck, Monday, 16 August 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

no it was someone labeling the tables

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

there are biiig pros to being one of the people who has to decide which LPs to chuck. Look at my collection for proof.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I am not on the radio station

oh, i. oh.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM A RADIO STATION! < /cancon>

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 16 August 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I had the gumption to steal a bunch of our vinyl. Who else is going to ever play MX-80 sound or A.R. Kane or Scratch Acid or LFO or JANDEK? The odds are quite low, really. The only records people play are like Billy Joel and shit. Someone did make way w/our VU vinyl recently, though. I'm suprised that didn't happen sooner.

― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 16 August 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i had a friend who dj'd at the rochester station once upon a time.

so is there a big collection of vinyl that you now cannot play.

at my college station we replaced the turntables pretty often; i couldn't imagine us having gotten rid of them; the reggae and hip-hop djs absolutely depended on them, and everyone else used them an awful lot. (including myself.)

― amateur!!!st, Monday, 16 August 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

p.s. stealing from college radio under any circumstances is really f-ing wrong.

― amateur!!!st, Monday, 16 August 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree. I was just fantisizing.

― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 16 August 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, i know. it's just an issue that gets me really worked up. when i was prog. dir. we had to kick a few people off for stealing station stuff (or worse: having promos sent to their homes instead of to the station, and never bringing them in). also once i spent $200 of the station's money on some stuff at dusty groove only to have it stolen out of the music director's office within 48 hours. grrrrr.

― amateur!!!st, Monday, 16 August 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

a friend of mine who works at a public radio/college station in detroit had to take legal action against a student at the school for impersonating him in promo request letters to a bunch of record labels. thing was, the labels already knew my friend so all they had to do was make a call to him to check the legitimacy of the letters and within a couple of days cops were on the case. (the impersonator, of course, left his home address on the letters so that the promos would be sent to his house out in the suburbs)

anyhow, about turntables... at CJAM at the grand ol University of Windsor (Ontario) we had to bring in our own needles cuz thieves kept taking the station's ones.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 16 August 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

its not only college stations unfortunately :( same happening here.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 16 August 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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