Wish I Had A Record Player

Oh lord... Is that a 45 or a 78?

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Braham

Vinyl's nice, but lossless works on my computer and fits in my pocket.

SENKOBEAN

@expansionsss - the jaded gamer: Ahaha :D "I'll be returning" Man, that sounded freaking stupid.

Tzibo

Send it to me!

Kovitlac

Here is hoping they saved some grooves for the dialogues. Scratch that DJ Hero.

I'll take that off your hands, I have a record player........... and you'll never guess what it's main function is :-D

I know that everyone and their mother wants to get their hands on this record. Do you have a Vinyl to PC interface so you can transfer the content? I would offer to help with the transfer but I doubt you want to let that record leave your hands...I know I wouldn't.

sonikdeathmonkey

@Kalapusa: I agree with you. Album art has taken a major hit.

Illist

That is fucking sick! I would love to have one... or five.

Illist

From the desk of Andrew Ryan, no doubt.

-J

Joppalowe

@Blah8: A conventional CD has a hollow, tinny sound compared to its vinyl counterpart. If you make sure your turntable needle is clean and your records are dust and scratch free, you can get some incredible sounding music from vinyl. I mean, there is a reason that vinyl is still around and widely available in used record stores, while cassette tapes are not :).

Though I would still take a cassette tape over an MP3. It doesn't get much worse than MP3 (except for maybe Real Audio).

Ferkner

I'd lend you my SoundBurger, but sadly we're not neighbors.

Klappstuhl

I've got a record deck wired into the server in the living room, allowing us to effectively rip LPs very quickly...
Bioshock Marketing Dept? Want to start a viral MP3 campaign? :)

Matthew McPherson

@Blah8:

conventional cd's no (16 bit), sacd's yes (24 bit).

so vinyl and sacd have 48 vs regular cd's 44.1, recordings are made in 24 bit, so no loss of audio (hear able or not) for vinyl or any modern digital music like the sacd

@Blah8: Vinyl has wider frequency range than normal CDs. But vinyls also have plenty of artifacts and the quality degrades over time. SACD and Blu-ray audio are way better.

Totilo..you live in NEW YORK. Go to the village and buy a record player.

@ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.:

heh, no worries. I was having a blatant whinge, so it was well deserved anyway ;)

eskimo103

@eskimo103: Sorry for being a dick in my first reply. Post-E3, the idiots come in droves, so I default to "snark" mode.

But yeah, I get what you mean. I remember when most of my gaming news came from the nag screens that pop up after you exit a shareware game in DOS.

@Black-Dog-Howls:
I thought that was a common misconception?
While vinyls do have better quality audio reproduction than mp3s and most compressed audio out there, I was pretty sure that conventional audio CDs still do beat them, not to mention SACDs or Blu-ray audio tracks.

Blah8

I own nearly 1500 albums, around 60 on vinyl. Vinyls sound better, just as audiophiles and critics say. I was skeptical at first, but they're all ripped and onto my iPod. CD's have a digital, compressed sound to them. If you listen to enough classics you'll notice a warmth and better sound that CD doesn't capture. Look up the loudness wars.

Love it; you guys need to get your asses down to Target or Best Buy and pick up one of those analog to digital turntables they sell so we can hear this baby.

@ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.:

Nah, it makes perfect sense. Thanks for the well considered reply. People arent going to sink money into a big game development budget without the appropriate marketing budget to back it up. I guess I just grew up with a much lower profile gaming industry, I have to get used to things changing. After all, the big blockbusters of the movie industry havent stopped innovation and independent film.

but yeah, I've got a big system shock 2 shaped chip on shoulder :P

eskimo103

@GreatNocturn357: I'm 18 and continually buying more vinyl. Not just the old stuff, but new ones as well. Next up on my list is the new Portugal. The Man and RX Bandits.

Alucrid

@Kalapusa:

FLLYYY ON YOUR WAAAY, LIKE AN EAGLE, FLYSSS HOME!

@eskimo103: That's just how the entertainment biz works, though.

For example, movies. It's not unheard of to start the hype train for a 90-120 minute movie many years before it comes out. Ghostbusters 3, Freddy vs. Jason, Doom, amongst many others, were hyped by industry folks for a ridiculously long time. Then the film comes out, people see it, and they start reading about the next film that tickles their fancy. That's just how it works, and it's the exact same thing with games.

The people that judge a game based on how often it's logo has been piledriven into their faces are legion in number. It's because of them that marketing is as aggressive as it is. Unfortunately, they're here to stay, and are a permanent fixture in the community. You can't so much as utter a game's name without being guilty of "marketing" it. In that way, we're all feeding the problem, and are powerless to stop.

I wouldn't call posts like this "promotions", though. It's no more than a "Hey, look at how cool this thing is" statement on a grand scale. If you don't like BioShock, then Stephen showing off his record won't change that. If you do, then you're already salivating for the sequel, and so you'd likely be interested in knowing that a sample of the soundtrack is out there.

(the first couple of paragraphs in this post sound like the ramblings of a very tired man, so if they don't make any sense, just focus on the last paragraph, as that's where I make my point.)

@kdrummer87:
Hey Im twenty and I have a turntable. True, its a usb one I mainly use to rip old records to mp3, but hey, its still a turntable. And Yes, the old records still get some pretty good audio quality.

gamebrain89

@ak416:

... *runs and hides from approaching onslaught*

spamspaz

@ShaggE wants to join the Egg Council.:

Look, I'm sure that's the case, but you haven't addressed my point at all. I can't get my head around why there are so many marketing promotions that get posted on this website.

It seems most games these days get judged on the content of their marketing, rather than actual game content itself. Its normal to spend way more time reading marketing material for a game than actually playing the game itself.

Think about your relationship with a game. You hear about it a year or so before it comes out. Then you spend the next year reading about it and anticipating the game. Then you get it, play it for a week and discard it, already distracted by the marketing campaigns for the sequels. I don't know about you, but that just seems really wrong to me.

eskimo103

@skullkid: That's Sander Cohen's opera from the first game, I think.

@eskimo103: Perhaps, and this is a long shot, Totilo found the record to be a cool piece of swag, and so he decided to share it in the blog that he writes for? Since it's a blog? Short for "web log"? A log of observations posted on the web?

Naaah, that'd just be zany.

@expansionsss - the jaded gamer: No, of course not, I was just surprised it happened nearly simultaneously.

Oh man, I want that so badly. What does it have on it?

I want to break out my record player now~

@nightwheel: whoops, ment to say player

nightwheel

I have a record plater, send it to me

nightwheel

@psxman: I just checked the site. (wow the site changed since I last visited!) Yes, there is a record player, and yes it will play the song (with a little extra...).

@Marios_shadow:

You expected something less in a news post about the sequel to the game where this line is the climax of the story and kinda ruins the "funny" if you screw it up ?

Remember Arnold's famous catch phrase from T2 ? "I'll be returning"

or in Ace Ventura when jim carrey comes out of the bathroom " Woooooo I would not suggest going in there "

@GreatNocturn357:

you do realize that more records are put out on vinyl now then ever before ? The format has only grown since its inception.

@Scrum:

I can pretty much guarantee you that Kotaku doesnt post every piece of gaming related advertising they get throught their mailbox. Why should Kotaku support a company with millions of dollars to put into advertising for silly hyping stuff like this, instead of supporting the little guy actually making something interesting?

I would much rather that all the dollars that went into hyping mediocre games like bioshock (interesting setting, shite gameplay) went into making the game better, but if people insist on perpetuating the hype of the gaming industry, we're just going to see more and more dollars going into marketing and less money going into game development.

Would it be fair to say that most of the titles that sell well today are boring from a core gamers perspective? If iteration after iteration of the same old shit is want you want, go for it!

It seems to me these days that the most media just happily tows the corporate line, a la Kotaku posting marketing material that comes through their mailbox.

I dunno, I'm deeply cynical this kind of stuff, probably more than I should be, but I'm interested to know why people like the Kotaku crew post ads as news.

eskimo103

Who doesn't have a record player?

kojirodensetsu

@Scrum: You've apparently never seen a record.

@MixMaster81: I think people are are trying to turn it into a meme (and they are failing). Because prior to the last few weeks, I've pretty much never seen anybody go "You've gone too far", and now suddenly I am seeing it frequently, but only when it is "You've gone too fart."
In short, retarded.

nworobes

@GreatNocturn357: Ummm. wax is back. Just ask a DJ. Waitaminute! I'm a DJ! :smirk:
VINYL FOREVER BAYBEE!!!

Record sales more then doubled in 2008, don't you know...

[76.74.24.142]

bduddy

@eskimo103: If you had a local pizza blog or a tree lopping blog, I'd expect you to post them

Scrum

doesn't it look like a CD in the middle?

Scrum

@The Maginomicon: As had I.

orijimi

I really dont understand why you guys at kotaku post this kind of stuff. IMO, there is already way to much hype in the gaming industry, and you guys are just perpetuating that.

Its much like me posting all the ads for local pizza joints and tree lopping services I get in my mail.

What is it about a marketing exercise that warrants it being reported on a supposedly independent blog?

eskimo103

Something interesting, [somethinginthesea.com] has been updated a lot since it was first mentioned on the site. This record, and some sort of decoder and well as a lot of other things are accessible now.

@chaos_isnt_here:
why was your sister near knobs when she was young, is that even legal

pneboy

You should totally give that away as a prize. I suggest the contest entails the Kotaku reader with the largest vinyl collection.

@burgerk1ng: WAIT WAIT. record it and put the files up for us!

burgerk1ng

When I first saw the post image, I read it as "CRAPTURED"

@IndiaAstyanax: I would be it for an unreasonable price.

burgerk1ng

Get an Ion turntable..cheap way to record vinyl (or cassette and 8-tracks...yes, I have an 8-track player o_O) onto a hard drive.

@GreatNocturn357: Me Relic, me have much record, hundreds record. Me play on flappy disk that go round and round, touch rock on record, purty sounds like mammoth pass gas.....oog.

But is it a 45?

@Austin Sherman: .....wait, are you referring to that earlier article post i saw with that same joke, ore is that a typo? Sorry, it's just that I can't really tell the difference between typos and l33t sometimes...

MixMaster81

@Crayon Box of Fury:
Sorry for a That's What She Said joke that makes no sense?

I love the "Disc read error" tag on this post, classic!

The-JJ

@undefined: Dear god, you people can't take a joke!

And Austin, your right. I got it mixed up. it WAS vinyl.

GreatNocturn357

I think that warrants a competition!

There has GOT to be a way for the random peops to get this kinda stuff!!!

SuperZombieMonkey

@GreatNocturn357: VINYL, NOT PLASTIC. This time you've gone to fart.

Austin Sherman

@orijimi: I cannot unsee what I have now seen.

Infininja

I have a record player. Give it to me. :D

Infininja

@GreatNocturn357: Wax? You mean vinyl, I hope.

Poul Wrist

I have a record player. Send it to me!

Is it just me or has a record player been added to [www.somethinginthesea.com] ???

You worked for MTV for how long and still don't have a turntable? :P

Hmm, maybe that's because MTV doesn't focus as much on the "M" any more as they do the "TV"...

@IndiaAstyanax:

60s huh, what kind a music would it be?
R&B? Northern Soul? Motown? Southern Soul? UK R&B? Freakbeat? Garage Rock? Psychedelic Rock? Acid Rock? Ska? Rocksteady? Skinhead Reggae? Mod Jazz? Boogaloo Jazz? Tropicalista? Did I forgot any popular 60s genre?

Tell me tell me ooooh yeaaaaah...

loempiavreter

it looks like it says . "crapture"

HadwinOcella

So you'd rather have a generic CD with music on it that you could possibly just pirate? This has Bioshock fans/gamer collectors in mind.

SeanGabsta

@Black-Dog-Howls: Analog > Digital, at least in terms of audio.

Waterspoison

@GreatNocturn357: PLZ tell me you are making a joke right. I am no recored snob but still nothing beats it. Also your a 30 something mr. Totilo you should have a recored player. Its a law or something right well i think.

kdrummer87

oh, send it to me! I have a record player. pretty please???

d3ath_fly

@GreatNocturn357: This promo for journalists isn't something they are marketing at anyone, and as "a 60's guy" you should be ashamed of yourself for not knowing the advantages of it over an mp3.

spannu

Look at it!.It looks so shiny!.Beautiful.My dad has like 100 Vinyl records,all of em are classical music.I dont really like classical music much so i dont realy listen to them.However,some friends lend me some of their records,my favorite would have to be The dark side of the moon and With the beatles.

@spamspaz:

NOBODY HAS TOLD YOU IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN 'Would you kindly?' YET?!?!?!

WHY NOT

@spamspaz: That's what she said.

I'm sorry everyone.

@Kalapusa: I look at tons of album art, what are you talkin' about? It's probably to blame for me being so accepting of stylized typography that I read that as Craptured Records.

orijimi

Hey i got a Record Player send it to me! lol

wow, brilliant little piece of marketing. I've got 2 turntables (Technics 1200's) and 2 portable turntables (so swell discs like this can be listened to in a park, hoorah).

@spamspaz:

No need to look here, just a 4th guy correcting it.

KINDLY

Nslick

@Black-Dog-Howls: ah an audiophile, I see. I love that 'giz explains' article they did on audiophiles.

@[uk.xbox360.ign.com]

@Marios_shadow: Oh, wow, three corrections in one minute.

This has to be some kind of record for us anal-retentive douchebags.

@Citizen Eraser: Hey I'm a 60s guy. Its just if your gonna market something; market with those who aren't antique collectors in mind.

@GreatNocturn357: If you knew anything about anything, you would know it was 'the wax age' thank you very much.

eBay it imo.

Kazama Sogetsu ♥ BlazBlue

@GreatNocturn357: Too bad this kind of stuff still has better audio quality than everything short of uncompressed audio files.

Black-Dog-Howls

@WhatTheFrag: Probably some old tunes from the 1960s like in the first game. Or maybe it's the never released vinyl of Big Daddy singing festive christmas carols.

Bouzi trippple nippples

@Kalapusa: I would say more so that the fact that most album covers just have the band/singer pictured on it, is the contributer to the lack of art viewing!

@Kalapusa: I'd like to add a coma to that, as you do not win a "sir".

Best comment this week, tho.

That is so cool.

@solosith: You win sir.

@One Man Freak Show: Oh man, I remember those! I had one when I was a kid, they just dont make toys like that anymore.

I have a record player. Unfortunately, it only plays Def Leppard, Crowded House, and Jeff Buckley.

I hope that's a Vinyl to PC he has. I want to hear what's on it. :(

Invisible-Echidna

@spamspaz: ... Kindly?

Yes.

@spamspaz: Would you kindly? I think that is what you meant.

@spamspaz: I think its "Would you kindly"...

If you could post a recording of it on here that'd be brilliant :D

@GreatNocturn357: Yeah, let's just flame them even thought the game's settings is in the 1960s!

Reminds me of the days of staring at album cover art (Iron Maiden!). Quality art took a hit from the smaller size of jewel cases, IMO, and with MP3s these days most people could go through a day's worth of music without looking at any art.

That's probably the coolest thing I've seen game-related in some time. I'm really into this sorta stuff, like the Mega Man 9 press kits and so on.

Bizarre vinyl being handed out for marketing something totally unrelated to music makes me cream my pants.

If you can't get your hands on a record player, let me know. I can convert that to CD no sweat.

I hope it would just be music from the game. Which would be awesome to have on vinyl (I'm not one of those 'vinyl is the only true medium for music' guys, but it just fits so well with the game's retro aesthetic, which might be the douchiest sentence I've ever typed). Just so you know, you can get a turntable that converts records to mp3s for pretty cheap (well it has usb connection to your computer, which actually does the converting), but I'm guessing this is probably a one time thing for you.

I have a Fisher-Price record player, and I'd be glad to take that off your hands for a couple pennies.

I hope this comes as a pre-order bonus. I know the chances are low, but one can dream! (Vinyl > everything else)

That's really cool. I just bought a record player, can't wait to get back into analog music, the way it was meant to be heard. I hope they market this because I would love to have a LP of the game's music.

bizarrosparks

Would you kindly give that to me?

I'd BUY a record player for that.

Its not a Bioshock marketing item. Its a marketing item for the new DJ Hero! DLC!!! OMFG!!

Colonel Burnill

too bad my record player no longer works, due to my sister playing with all the knobs and switches when she was younger.

I bet you're gonna have to play it backwards or something.

The_Green_Ninja

Oh dear god, give it to me would you please. Send it right now, would you please. Goddamnit, WOULD YOU PLEASE.

spamspaz

I've got a record player! Feel free to send it over.

That's a shiny record.

Sort of curious - what would be the recording? Though sounds like it might be a creepy kid voice a la Grudge or Ringu.

Fucking awesome, I wish theyd repackage into a LE.

GunSilence

I've got one. Send it my way.

Matt0505

I do have a record player, and I would be willing to take that off your hands for a reasonable price.

IndiaAstyanax

Wax disks for music? What is this, the stone age?