Pirating Back in the Day

[Onimode]

This is on Funnyjunk's frontpage. Anyone ever do this? Or know anybody that did? Discuss. :P

Also, this post's source is an article from June in 2010.

[Liambo]

Iv seen it being done quite a bit but never attempted it. The life in those copies are not very long either but good if you wanted to keep an original or something.

[nuke5]

lmao this is awesome

[JonathanBlake]

Excuse my ignorance, but does reproducing the grooves on the original vinyl actually reproduce the sounds?

[wrong chris]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVM18iJTMZs

[djproben]

Trademark G did this same thing but he actually made records out of ice. The record played for about 20 seconds before melting.

And yes reproducing the groove is all you need to do; the sound is purely based on the shape of the groove. You can play records without any electricity at all.

[Zaniac]

I would never get a chance to play any chocolate records, they would all get eaten by the time I get to the gig

[JonathanBlake]

Trademark G did this same thing but he actually made records out of ice. The record played for about 20 seconds before melting
And yes reproducing the groove is all you need to do; the sound is purely based on the shape of the groove. You can play records without any electricity at all.

Thanks DJP - I didn't realise that. Got a vinyl collection of note, and still have my Rega Planar TT , but was oblivious to this. Always thought the audio signal was etched into the groove .

[djproben]

Thanks DJP - I didn't realise that. Got a vinyl collection of note, and still have my Rega Planar TT , but was oblivious to this. Always thought the audio signal was etched into the groove .

It is literally etched into the groove The sound is produced by the needle vibrating in the groove; the groove is a literal representation of the soundwaves. If you really want to kick it old school read this: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edcyldr.html

[Quenepas]

And yes reproducing the groove is all you need to do; the sound is purely based on the shape of the groove. You can play records without any electricity at all.

I always thought it was magnetic something somewhere.