Word: vinyl
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...download: LCD Soundsystem – Yeah (Stupid Version). I really just rip most of my songs. I had about 550 CDs stolen last year, so everything on my iTunes is basically what I can’t afford to buy or don’t have on vinyl...
Four years ago, Pioneer Electronics revolutionized the DJ scene by building a CD turntable that allowed users to scratch and mix digital discs just like the old vinyl ones. Now Pioneer has introduced the DVJ-X1 ($3,299; pioneerprodj.com) the world's first DVD scratch-and-mix turntable. When you load up a DVD and start manipulating it--scratching just like a club DJ--the video on a TV monitor or projector reacts in perfect synch. Pioneer hopes the device will inspire a wave of DVD VJs to create new forms of visual entertainment. Imagine, at a dance club, looking...
Here's entertainment you can take with you. We found Wrapgammon under Gifts to Go on the Plum's Picks main page. Ghurka.com (see above) also sells a delightful backgammon travel set--for $295. This $36 vinyl version suits us just fine...
Album art and liner notes have evolved a lot. The CD booklet is really the shrunken offspring of the vinyl LP sleeve, which was big enough to be almost a poster included with your album. It didn’t lend itself as well to belabored liner note essays or tributes—sorry Moby—but it gave artists a sumptuous amount of space to flaunt their chosen image or visual artistic vision...
...first time I really listened to the third Santana album I was struck not only by the pyrotechnic guitar playing—infinitely superior to his current brand of lazy, guest-appearance cheese—but by the fantastic, almost certainly drug-inspired cover of the old vinyl album. The image, of an almost human man conjuring the universe against a dark lunar landscape, fit the music perfectly, or at least complemented it well. I was distinctly disappointed a few years later when I bought my own copy on CD: the cover, shrunk to CD size, looked tacky and painfully...