Thursday, October 13, 2005

OK...Here's the inchophone


I just wanted to post a picture of this little doodad and tell a little bit about it.
The inchophone is a small record player that runs only on batteries. It plays 3 inch records. For a brief period of time, you could get one of these record players along with 6 White Stripes singles (plus one bonus record) at their concerts. They sold out rather quickly (there were only 400 of these "packages" available), but I was lucky enough to get one. The special thing about this package was the "bonus record", titled "Top Special"; it is a new track available ONLY on the 3" vinyl. It's the only way to hear it since it isn't a single or anything. Everything shown in the picture cost me $130, which may seem like a lot, but considering the cost of pressing such a small number of tiny records and importing the record players from Japan, it's not really that bad. Besides, they are going for over $1,000 on Ebay right now, so it really was a deal. Call me crazy, but that isn't enough for me to consider selling it. Just having it all and being able to listen to "Top Special" whenever I please is worth a million bucks.
One cool thing that Mike found was every one of these records has a small number etched in the center between the end of the grooves and the label. Jack has this thing with the number 3; here are the numbers on all the records:
Top Special: 1
Blue Orchid: 999
Seven Nation Army: 33
Hardest Button to Button: 333
Dead Leaves: 9
Fell in Love with a Girl: 3
Hotel Yorba: 27
Pretty cool. Good eye, Mike!!

1 Comments:

Blogger Erin said...

I hope you come over soon because you must hear the new song. I'm glad to hear that Sara now likes the Stripes. I wouldn't say Jack is creepy; more scary. As if that is any better. Once you seem him live though, you get sucked in!

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