The perimeter of the camera is made from ridged plastic that almost feels like a cut-out from a vinyl record.
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The graveyard dogs soon returned, digging under a vinyl fence built four-feet high with three feet of wire mesh below ground.
Rather, the shifting and changing sounds suggest electronic sound effects, while sometimes the warping sounded like a vinyl record going very slowly.
She'll get no argument from Dave Ignizio, who owns Square Records, a vinyl-record shop in the hip Highland Square district of Akron, Ohio.
My mother leaned against the arm of a vinyl reclining chair and said she was thirsty, so I went to the nurses' station to fetch her some water.
You could share that with a friend the way that you might loan a vinyl record or a CD to them, to listen to a song that meant something to you.
The backseat space isn't much better than that of a Porsche 911 and the trunk space is equally negligible, especially with a vinyl cover for the roof living in a bag back there.
Along one wall of the 12-seat cafe, piles of freshly imported coffee beans from Ethiopia, Guatemala and Indonesia stood next to stacks of decades-old US records, and the trumpets of jazz musicians Chet Baker and Miles Davis resonated from a vinyl turntable.
The Sonic is wrapped in a white vinyl cover, turning the car into a blank canvas.
The idea of potentially giving away physical media seems absurd considering the cost associated with releasing music on a format like vinyl, which has become a highly coveted commodity for growing underground bands.
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Shebiro worries that a frothy market for vinyl may have record companies a little too excited.
That will make it easier to convert a collection of vinyl records and cassette tapes currently gathering dust to digital format, suitable for burning to a CD.
Take Apple 's iPod, which lets today's teenagers download any song for 99 cents--one-quarter of the price (in constant dollars) that kids in 1975 paid for a 45 rpm vinyl record.
Take Apple 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPod, which lets today's teenagers download any song for 99 cents--one-quarter of the price (in constant dollars) that kids in 1975 paid for a 45 rpm vinyl record.
Visitors can also check out a Thai gold shop from bygone days, take a seat in a dusty, blue-vinyl dentist's chair and admire a replica of an elementary school classroom.
So why would Dom--a band made up of twentysomethings, all raised in the compact disc era--decide to hawk vinyl to a crowd young enough to be guests at Justin Bieber's birthday party?
Digital piracy has been a cause of major concern for labels since Napster became ubiquitous, so the emergence of an unauthorized vinyl version of a major label album might not seem like a big deal by comparison.
This felt warm and nostalgic, like the crackle of vinyl on a record player, or a good Robert DeNiro movie.
Such hip-hop heavyweights as Jay-Z, Linkin Park and Nas are pushing out new vinyl at a record clip, so to speak.
But with vinyl making a comeback, the Gabriel may appeal to audiophiles who believe that listening to old records on a high-end player is like going back in time.
New York-based designer and manufacturer Sandy Chilewich reinvented the art of the table when she came across woven vinyl, a kind of extruded yarn that could be encased in PVC.
His favorite was Tony Hancock, a comic wedded to despair, in his life as much as in his work. (Hancock died of an overdose in 1968.) Harvey had him on vinyl: a pristine, twenty-year-old set of LPs.
There was also an accordion performance, the playing of vinyl on a record player and, towards the end, an impressive piece of physical theatre cleverly set to a flickering light in a darkened room to give the impression of an old cine-film recording - a highlight for me in such a small space.
The UK Parlophone copy of the album includes a high gloss cover and vinyl gatefold sleeve.
Independent labels producing punk, metal and other "outsider" music prefer the vinyl format as a kind of rebellion, Ignizio said.
Vinyl pressings of a decade's episodes of the soap from the 1950s and 1960s were found hidden in a BBC storeroom last year.
The window cling was made out of vinyl, not a real sticker, so it could be peeled off a window and pinched by a customer or competitor.
For independent record stores, which sell 71% of all LPs, vinyl is becoming a lifeline even as megastores like Tower Records and HMV have gone the way of the 8-track.
The concerts form part of the Island 50 festival, which includes a photographic exhibition at The Vinyl Factory in London's Soho and the publication of Keep On Running: The Story of Island Records.
Another older Shinjuku gem is Jazz Pub Michaux, a bar whose white-bearded, kimono-and-Mongolian-cap-wearing 76-year-old owner has 4, 500 records of hard-bop and soul-jazz, including a large collection of rare vinyl by artists like Baby Face Willette and Groove Holmes.
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