… Used LP’s of course…
While making a post about the patterns in the grooves of certain genre LPs, and taking photos to illustrate same, I detected that some of the photos indicated a state of filth that was kind of disturbing.
Now, mind you, these are $1 – $2 records that I bought just to see…, well, you know, it was one of those exploratory missions where we seek to explore strange new music – which only works if one is wealthy or the per cost is kind of very, very low.
Some of these photos make the grooves look very digital don’t they? You can just see the dots and dashes, the 0’s and 1’s, in this view. Well, this IS techno music, so it makes sense, no?
And what is with that semi-circular pattern? It is not visible in the other photos. Did someone set a cup down on this at some time in the past? Are there messages in these grooves that perhaps even the musicians are unaware of? Not sonic messages, but visual – like Carl Sagan’s Cosmos book, where near the zillionth digit of Pi pictures of circles and stuff can be found?.
Nahhhhh.
so those of you without cleaning machines – this is what your cartridge has to dodge and bump over while trying to play the LP for you.
Yes, we need to show the AFTER photos after a cleaning or two. But I think the machine is going to be packed up for the trip to Las Vegas and so there might be a wait – until after the show, and subsequent show reportage.
As you can / will see in the companion post, in many other photos of these albums they look just fine and dandy – they look perfectly playable.
By the way, these two LPs HAVE been brushed off with a standard carbon fiber brush.
