AudioNervosa
Systemic Development => Analog Devices => Topic started by: richidoo on March 05, 2014, 06:12:09 PM
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I am seeing vinyl imagery all over popular culture. Once you start noticing it, you'll find it amazing how the "vintage quality" image that vinyl represents is being used to sell stuff, and worn by dayouts to look cool.
Let's document all the appearances of vinyl records, turntables, etc. Jump on in...
1. Keith Urban was wearing a vinyl T-Shirt on American idol
2. Sleep Number Bed asks the question "analog or digital?" in TV ad, showing a TT and a digital pause button icon
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Here is what I've seen in the past couple of months.
1) Yesterday when I logged out of Paypal there was an ad where a person putting on an RCA record onto a Rega or Pro-Ject turntable and playing.
2) It may have been a Heineken or other beer commercial where there is a Technics 1200 TT playing a record at a bar in the beginning and then the party getting started.
3) I don't know if this counts but on NSFW site MeInMyPlace there are various models where I've seen they have vintage turntables in their rooms.
4) Some years ago there was a Lexus commercial where they were showing old analog technology and an older grey plasticy looking TT but it was pretty prominent.
5) Also in an older Ford ad with John Varvatos he goes to a record store searching for records. Drives off in his Ford to his studio and plays a record on his vintage set-up.
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Noticing lots of TV commercials showing TT or vinyl.
charles
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Thanks Sleepy!
Noticing lots of TV commercials showing TT or vinyl.
Yeah, me too!! Please list them here, as you see them. I think the list will grow faster than anybody expected. Please post links to pictures and videos of commercials if possible. Most commercials are on youtube.
As boomers retire and turn to hobbies, vinyl will continue to grow in popularity. People long for the happiness of their youth, and music on vinyl is a touchstone for many in the baby boomer generation. Retirees are advertisers' 2nd most desirable demographic target, after the 20-something baby makers. But as the most recent Triode Wire review shows, 20-somethings love vinyl too, even if it's only to be as cool as the boomers. I think 20 somethings love vinyl because they are culturally barren after growing up with rap as their formative music, and those who recognize the need for music as a spiritual nourishment are forced to choose music from another era than their own to find satisfaction. Those who venture back in time find treasures beyond their imagination, but it's on vinyl. They know, as do we audiophiles, that music is usually best listened to through the media on which it was originally issued. Hence the cool factor of spinning vinyl among da-yoots.
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kohler generator commercial
-saw it today while watching golf on nbc
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found another one.
At the beginning of the new Dasani drops commercial a customized Technics TT is shown in very the beginning to start the music to the commercial.
DASANI Drops TV Commercial, Try Me On (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkwsmIzX4wo#ws)
Also if you watch re-runs of the show House the Dr. has a Sota rig. They are even mentioned in the ending credits as a sponsor.
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A very nice closeup of a turntable playing at the end of the TV show Suits on USA channel tonight. Was probably a good 30 seconds or longer. Wish I could have done a screen capture.
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This was an interesting one I found yesterday walking from work to the train station. At a major Lord & Taylor store display the back drop was draped with vinyl records. I think this is a cross promotion for the Carole King Musical. This displays were pretty nice. I noticed the records more than what they were selling but that was just me.
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My wife made watch a chick flick with her the other night. "Down with Love," Ewan McGregor plays a 60s suave playboy. His house is all automated electric sex den, operated with switches. When his friend tries to operate it, his record changer starts throwing LPs like ninja throwing darts. They smash against the wall and shatter, leaving deep marks in the solid wood walls, chasing the people out of the room. The whole movie is 60s satire, but they were making vinyl out to be a symbol of ultimate cool for the ultra rich playboy living in the free-love age. Vinyl rig and reel to reel are behind the dude in this pic.
(http://blog.smartgirlstupidthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/100.jpg)
Very funny movie, btw.
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Just to add the Sleep Number Bed commercial with what it looks like is an AR table.
I had also seen on HGTV the Kohler Generator commercial mentioned.
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I was walking around outside to get some lunch and saw the Clarks store using records as props for their displays. I guess they are trying to liven up their image.
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I thought it was funny that U2 is giving away the shitty 128k mp3 files, but will still be selling vinyl on its new release. Now that's vinyl in popular media! It made drudgereport headline for a couple hours... the free mp3 part, not the vinyl part. :rofl:
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Dannon's new "Creamery" brand is advertising their new cheesecake flavored "goo in a tub" by pretending it is a spinning record, and the spoon is the tonearm. Pops and crackles on the lead in groove, then we're all doing "the twist" with Chubby checkers while the tub of goo spins and the spoon draws a groove in the synthetic strawberry topping.
watch it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BzVwz5fIj4)
Here's the Chief marketing officer of Dannon UsA explaining "The twist" to an advertising website interviewer:
"bc: So what's the "twist"?
Fuster: We're talking indulgence, but Creamery comes with some health attributes. The twist is that the healthy baggage that comes with it makes this indulgence a more permissible one, so our creative approach is based on that. The focus is on the artisanal quality of the product too; it's set in a "creamery." Most of the ads talk about being about 200 calories or under, and that's the twist. It's also a fresh twist on classic desserts."
Yeah, right, blablabla. He's obviously talking to women, paid to think like a woman and advertises to women, because women eat yogurt. Does this mean vinyl is appealing to women? Answer, yes, if it's in the form of cheesecake flavored greek yogurt with chubby checker music playing. Why?: chubby checker = 1950s = america's youth, age of innocence, decency, abundance and personal freedom. Vinyl = "the way we played good old real music way back when I was a svelte sexy little teenage tart." (And if I eat this shit, I can be like that once again, because the TV says so.)
Pretty clever ad, actually.
Yogurt trivia: Did you know that Yoplait brand is American (General mills) while Dannon is a french company (Danone?)
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Good find with this one. If I were a Danone or Dannon shareholder I would be pissed. Although it is a cool ad I swear Dannon is constantly playing catch-up. They were behind with the Greek Yogurt boom with their Oikos offering vs. Fage, Chobani and now with this yogurt they are trying to copy Noosa Yoghurt IMO.
http://www.noosayoghurt.com/
Sorry I'm hungry right now.
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Just saw a great ad for Scottrade. Collecting rare vinyl is the theme of the ad!
Link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7zWN4RkApU)
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Just saw a great ad for Scottrade. Collecting rare vinyl is the theme of the ad!
Link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7zWN4RkApU)
OK , it looks like and early 70s vintage Marantz receiver. Who can identify the turntable?
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Closeups..
What's what?
Looks like AT-95 variant for cart?
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The gyro wheel tuner is a dead giveaway on the receiver and I was thinking AT cart as well, but the TT has me stumped.
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Yes, my first separate tuner was a Marantz and had one of those horizontal tuner wheels.
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Could the headshell be a clue to the identity of the TT? For some reason I keep thinking it may be a Pioneer TT.
The ScotTrade ad made me think of another commercial some years ago but vinyl was only a little bit of the commercial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUoi-UcJ2Vk
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Seems like the current trend is sort of a hipster coffee shop headphone+vinyl rig.. but you don't actually plug your headphones into the vinyl rig.. You wear them around your neck and look at the vinyl rig and say things about it that you've heard from other people.
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The latest H&R Block commercial the announcer has a nice turntable on his desk when making the announcement about H&R Blocks prowess in getting people their tax money back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c2xMF95Z1Y
The TT looks like a Clearaudio one I believe. That or maybe a white Pro-Ject TT. Not really sure.
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Watched Mel Gibson's "Edge of Darkness" over the weekend, he stares lovingly first at his tt, then his deceased daughters like tt later in flic.
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That just made me blow my coffee out my nose, thanks for the 'wake-up'. :thumb:
Seems like the current trend is sort of a hipster coffee shop headphone+vinyl rig.. but you don't actually plug your headphones into the vinyl rig.. You wear them around your neck and look at the vinyl rig and say things about it that you've heard from other people.
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Saw this one this morning on Bloomberg TV.
Steve Wozniak Cadillac Dare Greatly ad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJjC6gonM_g
SNL even has vinyl making a cameo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnEiMaqQL4I
The audio set-up looks like total BS but at least the TT is in the scene.
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Saw this one this morning on Bloomberg TV.
Steve Wozniak Cadillac Dare Greatly ad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJjC6gonM_g
VPI Classic 4?
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Target Style 2015 TV Ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aubMABfUF9k
TT has no counterweight and the pink record has a black blank label, but the bikini babes are all correct. :thumb:
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There is no turntable in this one but it is associating vinyl with a hipster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng-1hc_-DGc
Toward the end of the commercial you hear the hipster with the spilled wheatgrass shake say that sounds so much better on vinyl.
I remember my one friend was busting my chops saying I was hipster now because of my turntable and I told him no as there is no way I'm ever wearing skinny jeans.
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Cadillac's "Dare Greatly" TV ad campaign:
Steve Wozniak and his VPI classic(?) a wall full of vinyl, cans, lying on the couch wondering why he quit Apple with only Cadillac money, instead of Pagani money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQvSG5rStew
"The Making Of" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbV5kNylBd0
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Closeups..
What's what?
Looks like AT-95 variant for cart?
I'm thinking that's a Goldring Elektra/Elan cart.
(https://www.pacifichifi.com.au/sites/default/files/styles/galleryformatter_slide/public/1344608985-12025600_0.png?itok=G87A_LMU)
Marantz receiver with a few burnt bulbs
TT you're guess is a good a mine
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In this NYC Men's Fashion show commercial where they associate vinyl and records with designer John Varvatos. I keep thinking it is an Ortofon headshell on a Rega arm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTkHiIydL3w&feature=trueview-instream
There was a Ford commercial some years back where Varvatos was shopping for vinyl and left the record store in his swanky new Ford. I can't find that commercial.
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Just saw a Kohler generator commercial with the family dancing around the house to tunes played on a turntable, the cartridge supporting a brush (old world style).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fakTNw56mw8
New Lincoln MKX offers an optional stereo system by Revel. They even have a premium 20 channel "Ultima" version. In the :30 version of this ad I saw on Kimmel tonight, they show the Revel icon on the door tweeter.
But this 2:45 version has the spinning vinyl (at :50-1:00), the hifi system, cranking up the volume, the sexy rich babe, the rich friends, 1960ish Miles Davis impersonator playing the whole soundtrack, tuxes watches and cufflinks, subconscious luxury symbols everywhere. Nothing sells luxury like jazz. When you hear jazz these days, button up your wallet pocket!
This is an ad aimed at wealthy, male, baby boomer, retiree, divorced, jazz loving, toy loving, audiophiles! Don't worry, McConaughey doesn't speak on these ads anymore. That was a major turn off for women. But this is still obviously aimed at men.
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There's a Porsche for that. :lol:
Scotty
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I've been meaning to update this thread with my findings but haven't had the time till now.
This is what I've found.
In the latest Guitar Hero ad a TT can be seen behind Lenny Kravitz and James Franco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev66m8Obosw
In a Samsung phone ad the musician, producer famous person who is selling Samsung phones now has a Technics 12xx in plain sight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dimmMDIFIgs
I was with the wife in NY & Company and the ad campaign featured Jennifer Hudson and had all sorts of logos on records. Vinyl+Jennifer Hudson and her Jeans = cool and hip I guess.
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Berkley Breathed is at it again. He said the current political election cycle was just too ripe with fodder to pass up, so he started Bloom County again. Only on Facebook I believe.
https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/a.114529165244512.10815.108793262484769/1077359478961471/?type=3&theater (https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/a.114529165244512.10815.108793262484769/1077359478961471/?type=3&theater)
(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/11225432_1077359478961471_1271719403712217263_n.jpg?oh=531b895eec34f8af24a5841c4948a3d8&oe=56C51C45)
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Similar story as last month's NYT online article (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/business/media/a-vinyl-lp-frenzy-brings-record-pressing-machines-back-to-life.html) and video, but just as much fun all over again. Is it the same plant?
This time they blame "millenials" for the vinyl boom. It would be very easy to know who's responsible for the fad by looking at a list of the top 100 selling vinyl titles. Beatles or Taylor Swift? Is that available publicly? If it's Pink Floyd then we know who it is and he's not a millenial. :rofl:
I read last week that the projected baby boomer spending peak passed about 5 years ago. If kids grow out of this vinyl fad in a few years and boomers spending on high end phono equipment rolls off at the same time that could make a vinyl crash like 1990s.
Or someone could announce production of new pressing machines with 200 orders in hand. And we start seeing vinyl bins in Target. 8)
http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/01/21/amidst-vinyl-boom-pirates-press-gains-first-new-vinyl-press-in-30-years/
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/vinyl-wont-really-make-a-comeback-until-we-have-more-record-presses
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http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/vinyl-albums-chart/
Looks like Boomers are still in control.
Long live The King! Elvis still #1 :thumb:
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Tv show legends season 2 episode 2 there's a meeting between two agents in a real record store. Having a conversation while flipping through vinyl. Just like the old cold war days.
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Latest Johnnie Walker ad. Looks to have some kind of Rega TT right at the beginning. IMO TT doesn't match the locale they were shooting at.
JOHNNIE WALKER BLUE LABEL USA presents Jude Law in 'The Gentleman’s Wager II'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6wmH0zhgdA
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Quicken Loans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqysh_vBS0c
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Hey lets face it vinyl is a part of a lifestyle not just for music. Cool is as cool does.
charles
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2016 Nissan Altima TV ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhKXizYamME
Vinyl playing at :29
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There's a dull page view of a record and a Hershel in the June issue of golf magazine on pages 51 titled "get into a groove". It has a cutesy sub of "turn the tables".
Can't post a pic here though.
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In the supermarket today
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Watching "Hitch" with my wife who is home sick today. The movie is produced by Overbrook Entertainment and starts with their logo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW3IhAxtvRI
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Brookside Candy on FuxBizNews this mornin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U9g3kPX1I8
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No vinyl but Bacardi Rum has a room filled with vintage speakers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1fp6wMqP5Y
:12
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I never thought I would see a vinyl LP in an MMA podcast but in the beginning segment we see a record played on cheap Crosley table.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1gr_vtmKYw
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(http://www.58-adventurer.com/images_tw/1.jpg)
"Powered by a 361-cu.in. V-8 that develops a stout 345 horsepower, this great-looking 1958 De Soto Adventurer convertible is one of only 82 examples built. It was shown by its proud owner, Vernon Smith, from Swift Current, Newfoundland."
It won best of class award among American postwar production cars at Amelia Island Concours in 2016.
Of course it won because it has a record player under the dash!
http://www.58-adventurer.com/unknown_2.htm
(http://www.58-adventurer.com/images_tw_med/tn_Dash.jpg)
It was featured on my fav TV show Chasing Classic Cars.
(https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13775613_1097757663581099_8453446527855093203_n.jpg?oh=e63e45c6411413bfe6b4d44d1e4bbc9d&oe=59D98211)
Note the key to lock it up. Proof it was designed by audiophile engineers. ;)
Vid of Desoto record player in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5Itc-P8JE
Desoto record player explained (FF to 2:10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f53yIL0x5xg
A different kind of car record player in action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0hRzEihsR4
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(http://www.58-adventurer.com/images_tw/1.jpg)
"Powered by a 361-cu.in. V-8 that develops a stout 345 horsepower, this great-looking 1958 De Soto Adventurer convertible is one of only 82 examples built. It was shown by its proud owner, Vernon Smith, from Swift Current, Newfoundland."
It won best of class award among American postwar production cars at Amelia Island Concours in 2016.
Of course it won because it has a record player under the dash!
http://www.58-adventurer.com/unknown_2.htm
(http://www.58-adventurer.com/images_tw_med/tn_Dash.jpg)
It was featured on my fav TV show Chasing Classic Cars.
(https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13775613_1097757663581099_8453446527855093203_n.jpg?oh=e63e45c6411413bfe6b4d44d1e4bbc9d&oe=59D98211)
Note the key to lock it up. Proof it was designed by audiophile engineers. ;)
Vid of Desoto record player in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5Itc-P8JE
Desoto record player explained (FF to 2:10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f53yIL0x5xg
A different kind of car record player in action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0hRzEihsR4
Fascinating to see a record stacker play vinyl with the arm upside down.
Those cars were beautifully restored. Thanks for the treat, Rich
Nick
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZdWxfgM_7U
Stella Cidre
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A truly disgusting ad:
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wBOz/xeljanz-xr-vinyl-collection
"Needles. Essential for vinyl, but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis."
Really?
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I know this isn't popular media but when I saw this I just couldn't resist. The wife drags me to Marshalls to make a return and this is the 1st display I see out in front. Methinks the manager loves vinyl and wants them to be in everyone stockings this Christmas.
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The latest episode of Billions had a VPI turntable prominently queued up just before a fairly disturbing sex scene.
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The latest episode of Billions had a VPI turntable prominently queued up just before a fairly disturbing sex scene.
Damn I was hoping for another scene of Wendy in leathers aa aa
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I think the director had balls making that robotic skeleton strip and show what little boobs she had. Sorry, that was very disturbing to me. Grosser than watching fat people boink.
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I think the director had balls making that robotic skeleton strip and show what little boobs she had. Sorry, that was very disturbing to me. Grosser than watching fat people boink.
The latest episode (http://abc.go.com/shows/splitting-up-together/episode-guide/season-01/4-soups-jealous) of "Splitting Up Together" ABC sitcom featuring Jenna Fischer's boobs will hasten your recovery.
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Grosser than watching fat people boink.
(https://www.viralviralvideos.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/87899101.jpg)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVkydkTbHCA
Faux millennial hipster / vintage gear audiophile has his stereo system in a giant sandbox. The sand buries his records.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n93m4LV5bqM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n93m4LV5bqM)
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Hey everyone. Sorry for the long radio silence. Moved and have been busy. Music listening was put on hold and now I have stacks of LPs to listen to.
Now here is something I found interesting. It looks like listening to Records is now something associated with young people. I was doing back to school shopping with the kids and found these ads in store windows at the mall. The 1st one was Aeropostale and the 2nd one was Neiman Marcus outlet. It looks like turntables and LPs appear to be for young people. Also I found an FYE music store open again. Not that many aisles of LPs and CDs but they were there. My wife just said you're so old now the trend came back around.
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Hey everyone. Sorry for the long radio silence. Moved and have been busy. Music listening was put on hold and now I have stacks of LPs to listen to.
Now here is something I found interesting. It looks like listening to Records is now something associated with young people. I was doing back to school shopping with the kids and found these ads in store windows at the mall. The 1st one was Aeropostale and the 2nd one was Neiman Marcus outlet. It looks like turntables and LPs appear to be for young people. Also I found an FYE music store open again. Not that many aisles of LPs and CDs but they were there. My wife just said you're so old now the trend came back around.
The Barnes and Noble by me now has a bigger selection of LPs than the do of CDs.
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Oh wow. I haven't been to a Barnes and Noble in a while. Last I saw their LP section was growing but I had no idea it got past CDs. The LP section in Best Buy is still small around me and the Target by me dabbled in some vinyl but eventually put stuff on clearance. I scored a bunch of David Bowie and Prince albums for a hair under what Amazon charges for LPs.
Also yesterday I saw on a Rooms To Go TV commercial the prominent placement of a turntable and a young family's house. Age of the people in the commercial seemed to be 30ish.
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I thought of this thread when I stumbled upon this. There is now a vinyl related porn scene. :shock: I never thought Vinyl's reach would get to this. I got a preview and it looked silly. The starlet was wearing Sony MDR-7506 with the logos taped up. The LP labels were taped up. They even had a R2R and some vintage gear in the background from the teaser pics I saw.
Edited description for a laugh :rofl: :lol:.
Slutty co-ed Tiffany Watson took a babysitting gig to earn some fast cash to get her DJ career off the ground, so naturally as soon as her client Sean Lawless leaves the house, she immediately wants to get her fingers on his vinyl collection! Tiffany seems to prefer rubbing the vinyl discs over her t%$s and p$%#@y to listening to them, and when Sean returns home early she gets caught red-handed lying on a pile of his records and rubbing her c^%t through her fishnet stockings! The stern DILF is angry that his records are ruined, so Tiffany begs to make it up to him with a d@#$^&**)t b(*wj$b. Tiffany likes Mr. Lawless's c%ck even better than she likes his album collection, and she asks him to fill her mouth with c%m!
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haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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I nominate sleepyguy24’s post for some kind of award. Funniest porn review on a non-porn related site. :thumb:
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Found this today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF5S9aNh1T4 I think the turntable the old lady is using makes me think of a Pro-Ject turntable. Made me smile.
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Hifi, Music, Vinyl & Ladys group on Facebook. Plenty of vinyl and ladies. Maybe some soft porn.