defend the indefensible- scratched up CDs and Scratched up LP's

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Scratched up LP's are more robust i say.

― startrekman, Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

but you won't fix 'em by sanding them down

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

scratched LPs that skip really are indefensible but sometimes I love me some hissing and popping.

― jmeister (jmeister), Thursday, 25 August 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

jmeister otm

scratched up CDs can be interesting too, look at oval

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

I hate scratched up and moldy old LPs -- only good thing about them is they clog up the bins and keep the lazy vinyl shoppers away.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

Helps you deattach yourself from the material world and further yourself along path to reaching Nirvana

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

Someone didn't do a thread title search for "scratchy!"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

I have a Primal Scream XTRMNTR promo cassette tape that got warped from being in my car for too long a few years ago. It sounds cool.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

There was a stretch when one of my absolute favorite things to listen to was the first 2 minutes of a very scratched New Tijuana Moods CD. It was wildly phrenetic but just coherent enough to make it brilliant. I scratched up the cd some more to try and reproduce the effect on the rest of the album, and it lost the magic.

― BrianVance, Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

I bought scratched-up Rolling Stones LPs on purpose. Mick sounds better if he's been punched in the face a few times.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

pierre schaeffer has some good stuff to say about LP scratches in the august issue of the wire.

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Scratched-up CDs are only good if some indy-altcountry crap you're being forced to listen to suddenly turns into abstract minimal electronics for a few seconds until the bartender skips to the next disc.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Anomalous records once sent me a freebie promo CDS from some horrible World Serpent band. Inspired by Oval, I scratched it up and threw it in the player. It did some really amazing stuff. I was impressed.

― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 27 August 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

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