Shady scams and other silly business ideas to take advantage of earnest new vinyl collectors

don't even know where to put this:

http://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/dustyScratchedVinylNoiseGenerator.php

You can use our dust and scratch generator to add a new "old" dimension to your digital music. When properly set up, these noises will interfere with your songs less than you might expect. Instead, they will increase the perceived sound quality of your poor recordings by adding frequencies and transients that are missing.

This generator is great, especially when put together with the Beatles album of your choice. Personally, I'm listening to it with Abby Road, though, any music created before cassette tapes were invented will sound better with this as background noise to make it sound more like an authentic record.

Play this and My Girl by The Temptations for the perfect sound of vinyl jazz.

I just found this and it's perfect to play with my Star Wars A New Hope soundtrack. Takes me back to listening to my parents records on lazy afternoons.

Great to add to classical music too! I remember listening to Mozart on vinyls when I was a child, and this noise overlapped to modern recordings reminds me those times so much.

mozart wrote the best crackles it's true

the perfect sound of vinyl jazz

Paired it with a cello/piano cover of a Fall Out Boy song... this is surreal.

seriously though, when you mess with the presets on there you can make an amazing glitchy ambient record.

i'm pretty sure you could send a cd of those noises to Mego and they would give you a record deal.

(commenter, not me)

lol @ scott, that is probably true

so soothing...

I hope you can simulate inner groove distortion or a dirty stylus

i want to simulate the record jumping a couple seconds from me walking out to the kitchen to get a beer, otherwise forget it

recreate the sound of a record skipping bc of a speck of gunk, incorporate the pause while it's cleaned off, then resume.

man there has been vinyl pop generator plug ins since the 90s

Needs a slider for the sound of massive bong rips in the background to put the finishing touches on re-creating the 70s.

Scott have you thought about having a superwarm section in your store for vinyls with extra crackle? Could be a big seller man

instead of hot stampers we could have warm cracklers

ew

Yes! I have a sloan lp here that looks likes it's been cleaned with a garden rake, just the thing for nostalgic Canadian pre-millennials. the surface noise is deluxe!

seriously though, when you mess with the presets on there you can make an amazing glitchy ambient record.

― scott seward, Friday, 9 October 2015 15:33 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cf Philip Jeck's live performances

I have oval records made from cd glitches that have added vinyl crackle, truly the best of both worlds

Oval albums on vinyl seems some sort of shady scam

I check out the sale vinyl section at Urban Outfitters every so often, and I noticed that they now have ~10-20 used records for sale mixed in with the new stuff. The used records have fresh plastic covers with big orange stickers that say "Vintage" in some font probably called "Vintage." They also cost $10 and are shit.

https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfp1/t51.2885-15/e15/10955497_511867858951982_686863165_n.jpg

The mere thought of someone going to U.O. to score vintage Foghat and Sammy Hagar vinyl-- is this the through the rabbit hole moment for the new generation of vinyl collector?

Uh that Chilliwack 2LP on the top right is dope, actually, if you like Crazy Horse and/or dudes sitting in an echo chamber playing percussion instruments (which is a lot of the second LP). Rest is mostly crap you shouldn't pay more than $3 for.

tbh I wouldn't mind a copy of Fool For The City but I wouldn't pay $10 for one

in UO's defense, when there are no more record stores any more it seems less silly...

it would be funny if they stocked multiple copies of each record. you'd flip one of them over hoping there'd be something of value behind it, but 10-15 increasingly hopeless flips later you'd just give up and be like

http://i.imgur.com/lTvedIE.png

Foghats all the way down

lol papa john creach solo album

in UO's defense, when there are no more record stores any more it seems less silly...

― skip, Monday, October 26, 2015 2:43 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The UO I went to has one record store across the street and another (better) one a few blocks away

this already a cold case over at steve hoffman forum: http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/urban-outfitters-now-selling-used-records-erm-vintage-vinyl.444709/

wanna hear this Shaun Cassidy album:

No, but I paid more than $13 for this one which is basically a secret Todd Rundgren/Utopia album:

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/lyricwiki/images/b/b1/Shaun_Cassidy_-_Wasp.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20131010001356

$4 on Discogs.

looking away from the cool fire rn

this should probably go here:

http://www.laweekly.com/music/like-mixtapes-love-vinyl-this-company-combines-them-6199027

Called Vinyl Moon, the nascent, Los Angeles-based endeavor is a subscription-based vinyl mixtape series, featuring a new 10-track release sent through the mail every month. Each curated release consists of songs from relatively obscure and unknown indie artists and bands. In addition to the records, each volume comes with stickers and postcards, and each record jacket is decorated with original, custom artwork from different artists each month.

The idea for Vinyl Moon came to Bogajewicz in the summer of 2014, while listening to 7-inch records from some of his favorite burgeoning bands. Though he likes to support bands by buying their albums and EPs, listening to a 7-inch vinyl, which can only hold about two songs per side, was downright annoying. “It was so frustrating,” he says. “It was like, ‘Great, I love that you guys made a song, but I would like to sit down for longer than three and a half minutes.’”

A “light bulb” moment ensued, in which Bogajewicz realized that he could be the guy to solve this problem. “I wished somebody would just take all these 7-inches from upcoming bands and put them into a full-length record,” he says. “And usually when you think, ‘I wish somebody would do something,’ it’s not stuff that you can actually do. But I was like, ‘Hey, I actually might be one of the better people to do that.’”

Not only did Bogajewicz have experience working with both bands and labels, but he also had what he called “a pretty good trust certificate” through his music website, The Burning Ear, which would give him another outlet for promoting the bands (who, so far, don’t get any licensing royalties for letting Vinyl Moon use their songs). Plus, this was not Bogajewicz’s first time making mixtapes. As a student at Venice High School, he compiled, recorded and decorated his first mixtape in 1997: a punk- and ska-heavy cassette tape called Zev, the Cry of the Wolf that was “all about the bands you know, but the songs you don’t.” Zev was followed by Come On Everyone: 29 Ska-Licious Tracks in 1998 and The Watermelon Collection the year after.

“I spent so many years of my life trying to figure out what I wanted to do and to eventually settle on an idea and realize it’s just an idea I had in high school was kind of gratifying and validating,” says Bogajewicz. “It was this all along. It just took me a long time to realize it."

In May of this year, Bogajewicz created a Kickstarter campaign to fund Vinyl Moon. In the span of a month, the project earned $8,500 more than their $10,000 goal, and volumes 1, 2 and 3 sold out. With each monthly release, the number of subscribers has grown; about 700 people will be receiving volume 3 in the mail in November.

Though each volume has a different theme or mood (volume 3 is more mellow; volume 4, says Bogajewicz, will be half dance-pop, half rock and guitar), pretty much every song, band or artist can be prefaced with the word “indie.” In fact, according to its Kickstarter page, the only genres you’re not going to hear on a Vinyl Moon release are metal or country.

Genius. Now waiting for Bogajewicz to realize in amazement that "if you pop the tab out on each side, nobody can record over the tape!"

So these are the free albums you get stuck to the front of magazines that you'll never listen to, but on vinyl and expensive

"if you pop the tab out on each side, nobody can record over the tape!"
This was a breakthrough moment for me as a kid.

Not sure why I just thought it was amazing

haha for me it was the opposite - "I can record over these old tapes if I block the holes?!?"

Yeah there was the scotch tape discovering.

discovery I mean

“It was so frustrating,” he says. “It was like, ‘Great, I love that you guys made a song, but I would like to sit down for longer than three and a half minutes.’”

i make this joke every 24 hours, but... what if there was a technology that permitted you to play EIGHTY MINUTES OF UNINTERRUPTED MUSIC and you could even skip back and forth among songs without having to get up and move the needle?

i think we really are through the rabbit hole, folks. it's like the CD never existed.

haha for me it was the opposite - "I can record over these old tapes if I block the holes?!?"

― sleeve, Tuesday, October 27, 2015 7:27 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, THIS was the real hack. you could even give your friends old copies of U2 cassettes where you had overdubbed every other track with negativland. not that i know anyone who did that.

do these garbage humans even realize how full of shit their enterprises are? i feel like that would be better than if they actually believed in what they were doing.

Zev was followed by Come On Everyone: 29 Ska-Licious Tracks in 1998 and The Watermelon Collection the year after.

What the Jesus fuck

“I wished somebody would just take all these 7-inches from upcoming bands and put them into a full-length record,” he says. “And usually when you think, ‘I wish somebody would do something,’ it’s not stuff that you can actually do. But I was like, ‘Hey, I actually might be one of the better people to do that.’”

Labels have been doing this for years, they're called compilations.

And if this ridiculous shit couldn't make it

http://i67.tinypic.com/m6k8z.jpg

I have a feeling you're comps of singles by bands nobody gives a shit about might wind up selling for $1.50 each in the not too distant future.

your, dammit