The Elderberries by Corey Pandolph and Phil Frank and Joe Troise for March 09, 2010

Even so, you still have to mount and play those records …. each side … in order to record them to the ipod. Sure, it is easy … but certainly not mere moments for such a “lot of records”, whether 33’s, 78’s or 45’s.

No wonder people who don’t “know” feel it is totally beyond them – but then, this is just a comic so you can expect detail to be left out. ;)

big pink mom, on your question about the inconsistency with gocomics in email. you get them both in email AND go to the webpage?

isnt that redundant ?

isnt that redundant ?

I wish I had that kid around here: I want to get my albums and cassettes onto my computer.

But, Joe, are you old enough to remember stiff (not flexible vinyl) records that were recorded on only one side (the other side was smooth)?

You don’t record them straight from the records…you just download them, which isn’t illegal if you actually own them.

@ WyattMute:

bingbingbingbingbingbingbingbing!

no matter how you stack it, if this scout keeps this up, he will have earned his badge with the people of this retirement home!!!!

I certainly remember 16, but it was actually 16 and 2/3 RPM (half of 33 and 1/3). (Luckily, no standard record never played at many revs per second, or else every record would have been over awfully quick! ;) ) Everyone eventually stopped referring to the fractions, but the exact fraction actually always remained the speed actually in use. Why the engineers who developed “Long Playing” records around 1950 felt it was so important to have a perfect one-third of 100 RPM, I can’t imagine.

I love the Chipmunk tail. Yesterday it was so subtle I didn’t notice it by myself; today it’s clearly chipmunk in species. Fun.

I remember “78’s” that would shatter like plates if you dropped them.

I too, remember 1 sided records. The ones I saw were so called classical. But there were a lot of blue grass 2 sided later.

Anyone who finds one of those cardboard records could be sitting on a goldmine. The Beatles and other bands put out tons of them on 45rpm’s, especially in the mid Sixties, and especially as mailings to fan-club members.

Understandably, they were typically played over and over, out of love or sheer loyalty, until the grooves were worn practically smooth (i.e. silent, or plain “white noise”). Any that survive in good condition are rare and much sought after.

If you don’t believe me, just mail ‘em to me and we’ll both be happy!

Didn’t some of those records come on the backs of cereal boxes Avon?

It takes longer than that, and some of the records I have never did come out in digital format. Plus, at 99 cents apiece, that can add up pretty quick.