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TIL there's a company in Indiana that makes custom vinyl records for bands that contain things like liquid and sand (and even weirder stuff) inside two sides of a transparent playable 33 1/3 disc.

They did a blood-filled record for Motley Crüe, a fly-filled record for Alice in Chains, a ring-filled record for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie soundtrack and other weird stuff. One even has scorpions inside it!

TIL there's a company in Indiana that makes custom vinyl records for bands that contain things like liquid and sand (and even weirder stuff) inside two sides of a transparent playable 33 1/3 disc.https://romanusrecords.com/pages/romanus-custom-manufacturingOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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makeshiftreaperreply
lemmy.world

Oh man, introducing people to The Gizzverse is so much fun. They have 25ish records and like most prog rock bands they're less about individual songs and more about whole albums. This website is a pretty decent guide to getting into them, or this reddit post has a nice flow chart you can follow. Personally I love Infest the Rats' Nest and Nonagon Infinity. The latter is 9 tracks designed to be played on loop without a clear stop or end point

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DaGeek247
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A balancing act that’s gotten the attention of some well-known recording artists including Alice & Chains, Motley Crue and Fall Out Boy, who sent Banta a vial of the band members’ actual tears.

“It's absolutely wild being sent that in the mail,” Banta said. “I took their tears and I diluted them across like 50 records. They didn't tell me they were sending it. I almost threw it away because I didn't even know what was in it.”

Gawdtdamn that's metal as fuck.

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wersooth
lemmy.ml

don't tell metallica (especially thinking about Load album) :P

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Treczoks
lemmy.world

My niece once worked in a factory here in Germany that did similar jobs.

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TurboWafflz
lemmy.world

I feel like these have to be more fragile than a normal record since they're hollow and I really doubt sand or water are a good thing to suddenly have spilled into your record player

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Flying Squidreply
lemmy.world

I doubt I'd play one if I had it anyway. It's more a collector's item thing. If I was a big fan of Mötley Crüe, getting a record of theirs filled with blood would be pretty cool.

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Tyoda
lemm.ee

After reading the title I immediately thought "Put an ant farm in it!"

I'm guessing the other similar ideas weren't so much "alive".

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Cortreply
lemmy.world

Potentially alive until they got pressed into hot vinyl, but probably dead to start with

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