how fucking mental are they? i got this born against / suckerpuch record and its floppy like paper and square, has anyone else got anything like this????? it plays fine and everything.
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how fucking mental are they? i got this born against / suckerpuch record and its floppy like paper and square, has anyone else got anything like this????? it plays fine and everything.
how does it work? And on what?
Flexidiscs = ghetto
They mainly came free with magazines, because they are -flexible- it doesn't really matter if the magazine gets bent a bit, it'll still play. They were loads cheaper to manufacture and because they were a freebie, they were allowed to be 'throwaway'.
For the uninitiated, a flexi disc is fairly thin sheet of plastic the : colour, thickness and feel of photographic film but in a bit square or rectangle (usually). In the middle on one side you can see grooves that look just like those on a record, and it's got a hole in the middle.
You put it on a turntable just like a record, put the needle down at the beginning of the groove and listen away.
Sonic Youth released two flexidiscs:
Interview Soundsheet
Teenage Riot / Warpower
Heres a website with some info on the flexi disc:
Music formats discussed, the flexi disc.
There are some links at the bottom of the page which may help you on your quest for flexi knowledge.
I'm a geek.
i love al.
Yeah I had quite a few at one point...magazines like NME gave them away.....I even had one from the comic OINK!
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