"cassingles"
Fragility wasn't the issue - it was size. I have some vinyl EP's that were given free with the NME back in the 80's (they're not flexi discs), but 4 or 5 tracks was all you'd get on a 7 inch record, so they weren't very practical. Cassettes were much better because they could put an albums worth of music or more on one cassette. Those NME singles were just a bit of a novelty thing they did once, but mostly they put out sampler tapes which contained at least an hour's worth of music.This is crap reasoning
The main reason that vinyl wasn't put on magazines is because it is too fragile. The cost of producing vinyl records was much cheaper than cassettes.
"cassingles"
Carry on, carry on..... as if nothing really matters.......I dunno why I bothered to do it, mind.
My mum bought the actual cassingle when freddy mercury died, for the car. It was an auto reverse tape player too so the song could play over and over and over again to infiniteI once made my own Queen cassingle: I copied Bohemian Rhapsody onto a tape, unscrewed the case and cut it off where the song finished, chucked away the excess tape and glued the end to the empty spindle, then screwed it together again.
I dunno why I bothered to do it, mind. It must have made sense at the time.
ah probably right, i think they always fast forwarded through that side thoughit had 'those were the days of our lives' as the b-side (actually it was a double-a iirc?)
I'm pretty records always were more expensive to produce than cassette tapes. That's why you always got tapes free on the front of magazines, and never records!!
i had a flexidisc (which i think i finally binned this year) called Songs for Swinging Voters put out in 1964 by the Conservative Party. There was zero merit in it though, one for the bin. BLue plastic tooeta: They were called 'Flexi disc'. Absolutely terrible things.
i had a flexidisc (which i think i finally binned this year) called Songs for Swinging Voters put out in 1964 by the Conservative Party. There was zero merit in it though, one for the bin. BLue plastic too
I've got a Mark Morrison 'Return of the Mack' and a Michael Jackson 'Bad' "cassingle" , quite a bit of punk, reggae, 1980s hiphop, house & jungle cassettes.I have 3 cassette singles! War - Low Rider. Blaggers ITA Stresss. and John Lee Hooker Chill Out. not my desert island discs (cassettes) I wouldn't say.
Oh. I remember having one from Mad. A multi-groove one called "Super spectacular day"Mad Magazine used to have cardboard flexi disc type things too. You would have to tear them out of the mag.
http://www.discogs.com/Mel-Danis-And-Mad-Idiots-A-Mad-Look-At-Graduation-Day/release/2010412
(they were shite)
Mad Magazine used to have cardboard flexi disc type things too. You would have to tear them out of the mag.
http://www.discogs.com/Mel-Danis-And-Mad-Idiots-A-Mad-Look-At-Graduation-Day/release/2010412
(they were shite)
is there any real reason for the concrete?(the music is actually really good in places too - the Druss tape is lush as fuck)