Nothing provocative about a girl taking a photo of her alluding to masturbating with a videogame accessory? what world do you live in?!?!?
I don't see the problem. Play-Asia included the photos in their product description, they even threw in a free package of Tempo with each Trance Vibrator. I think it's a laugh, not provocative. Maybe to some people in Tennessee, yes, but not to anyone I know.
She clearly had the mens rea (guilty mind) and intent to provoke, which meets the test for provoking by default
I do hope that Play-Asia paid the girl for using her photo. That said, it got her what she wanted. Attention. Now she gets paid to play games and write about them. Not all that different from Jessica Chobot and her PSP licking photo. -hl718
i still have tons of vinyl at (parents-)home. mostly 1990~1995 techno EPs. also had that gabberish NAMCO ridge racer rec. actually, namco released a lot of tracks on vinyl, still later during the 90s were vinyl was already almost disappeared outside the DJs world.
Lots of bands still release their albums on vinyl, like AC/DC, Metallica, Billy Talent, ect. I doubt that vinyl will experience a "huge comeback" like some people predict, but it certainly hasn't kept vanishing as fast as in the 90's. Some of the really mainstreamish shops even recreated a specialized vinyl section which has not been there for the past 10 years. In 2006, 600k vinyls were sold in Germany - in 2008, it were 900k. As long as it doesn't totally vanish and labels keep releasing awesome things like the brilliant Metallica Death Magnetic vinyl boxset, I'm happy. In the end, most music I like is too old to be released on CD only anyway ^_^
Two things about vinyl 1) Apparently in the commodore era there were at least two magazines that printed paper-thin records as inserts with instructions on how to copy them to casettes as data. 2) In my opinion, the recent resurgence in vinyl has a lot to do with the limitations of CDs and increased amounts of electronically distributed music (legit or otherwise). Why buy a CD when you can download an exact copy of it and make your own for cents? SACD and DVD-A provide great harder to reproduce, higher quality alternatives, but players still tend to be costly, as does the media. Now with vinyl, the 18-25 year old generation can often just pull their parent's turntable out of the closet, find one at a garage sale, or otherwise cheaply. While digital used to be the new wave, this generation is embracing the analog exactly for the reason it was discarded before: the experience. Never exactly the same twice, more 'holistically satisfying', whatever. That was a much longer, stupider post than I had intended. Anyways, C64 and Speccy games on vinyl, how wild is that?
A German teenager magazine did that as well, back in the 60's. They attached a thin sheet of the size of a 7" vinyl. You could put it on a single (adhesive) and listen to the announcements of a music hitlist made up by the authors. Cool stuff.
I have a vinyl called "The 8-bit construction set" that contains one side with atari sounds + some atari program and one with C64 sounds + some C64 program. Never tried transferring the programs to tape to test thought.
I feel intrigued, how the hell do you copy Vinyl "data" to a cassette? Do you use an analogue path just as you'd copy music from vinyl->cassette? is the information on the vinyl stored digitally (i.e having only "low" and "high" pits) or is the data analogue? (which seems unlikely, considering you'd have to get the C64 or atari to translate the whatever_number-base analogue structure of the data into bloated binary sequences)
I guess "recording" would be a more proper word (even though copy is correct me think)? in my case I guess it would be vinyl -> mixer (instead of riaa box) -> tape recorder or something similar.
The data is all analogue. All the early home computer systems recorded digital data on analogue media. A vinyl audio record should be no different (although the ease at which you could get a 'pop' and lose a chunk might be much greater).
not digital - stll analogue its most likely the lp just had beeps and tones etc, same as a c64 tape program something similar happens with vinyl emulation software eg fs, serato, traktor etc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Scratch#Concept
