From amazon.com: This original collection features the most remarkable vinyl artifacts ever produced: a connoisseur's selection of records in a plethora of colors, shapes, and forms, imprinted with extraordinary effects and images. Produced in collaboration with Colors magazine, this book showcases over 400 of the most exceptional records owned by leading collectors Alessandro Benedetti and Peter Bastine... these are rare and valuable records in countless designs and colors - gold, transparent, photo-printed - in a dazzling variety of shapes: butterfly, heart, star, and even a tree-shaped disc.Alessandro Benedetti has built up a personal collection of records that includes about 8,000 discs of various types. In 1981 he started collecting colored vinyl records and in 1998 his collection of colored vinyl won recognition in The Guinness Book of Records. The collection now includes about 1,200 colored vinyl discs.
Hey rocky, you're not still using one of those 120-volt vinyl-spinners, with their 60-Hz power-grid distortion and taint of Tesla occultism, are you? Considering the sonically sordid result, you may as well trade in those wax discs for 192-Kbps mp3s! Instead, consider upgrading your platter-player to the only acoustically pure option. Inspired by a simpler time, the hand-cranked Gakken Premium Gramaphone allows for a sound signal path that is purely mechanical, from kick drum to ear drum. With this device and the help of a strong-armed assistant, you can cut your own wax tracks - like Robert Johnson at the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio! A cover of his Dead Shrimp Blues would seem timely, considering the tragedy in the Gulf. japanesetrendshop.com
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FB, thanks for the tip. Only $142 for a "premium" gramophone! I may have to get one. I've got a few 78rpm jazz platters I can't play because neither of my turntables has a 78rpm setting or the right kind of stylus to play shellac records.
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