vinyl

Vinyl junkies and nerdy hip-hop heads are no doubt salivating at this awesome R2D2-styled turntable. It looks like a heavily modded Technics 1200, so it's not too out of the question to find one on Craigslist to build a C3PO counterpart.

[boingboing]

It's like horseshoes for hipsters and audiophiles!

Put record in box, pour latex over record to create mold, pour vinyl over mold to make your bootleg copy. And all without a bar counting down your remaining download time.

No, really you guys. It's really him.

An ad campaign for secondhand music store Vinyl Exchange assembled patchwork bodies, Frankenstein-style, out of the detached body parts so often portrayed on album covers.

Instead of an iPod, why don't I carry around something bulkier and with a higher audio quality that will be nullified by the fact that I'm wearing headphones?