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Company Presses Your Ashes Into Vinyl When You Die
Lanxon writes "Music lovers can now be immortalized when they die by having their ashes baked into vinyl records to leave behind for loved ones, reports Wired. A UK company called And Vinyly is offering people the chance to press their ashes in a vinyl recording of their own voice, their favorite tunes or their last will and testament. Minimalist audiophiles might want to go for the simple option of having no tunes or voiceover, and simply pressing the ashes into the vinyl to result in pops and crackles."
Will it play back demonic messages??
Stupidity only gets you so far, then you've gotta try
HEY! Get your stylus off of my B-side!
Do not play this record with a system that contains the Denon AKDL1.
http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/product-reviews/B000I1X6PM
OMG! You kill- (skip)
OMG! You kill- (skip)
OMG! You kill- (skip)
OMG! (thump) -stards!
Seen as how I can't dance, It'll be nice to get a grove when I'm dead.
Be relentless!
I'm making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS.
(I think thats how I'd like to be remembered)
"Always look on the bright side of life"
The RIAA always did want to own and control our lives, I guess now it will do so once we're dead and printed into a format they can copyright.
Sweet, Now I can rickroll from beyond the grave!
It's already in my will: when I die I want to be cremated and have my ashes blown in the faces of people who annoyed me.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Don't jump to my throat, vinyl is not dead, but is somewhat terminally ill. Can't they press a dvd or something more future proof with your ashes instead, while keeping the part of containing media about you?
they won't presses my ashes into vinyl before I die?
Can the be pressed into vinyl seat covers? Specifically Milla Jovovich bike seat cover.
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The relatives of the minimalist audiophiles then might get sued for copyright infringement of 4'33" or have to pay royalties when playing that record.
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...now that it's too late.
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Prisencolinensinainciusol. Ol Rait!
I guess that means that Vinyl will never truly die, even if/because we will.
Rainbow lives on. \m/
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Perfect. I'd create an audio will and when I die, have it recorded to the record. Then at the will reading have them play the vinyl. Then I want to be dipped in platinum and framed on a tombstone. Yes, perfect.
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The weight of the ashes of an average male is around 3 kg.
That's much too much material for a single vinyl record. So either they throw away most of the ashes, or it's a scam altogether.
Boston's More Then A Feeling, totally the song I would put on my record.
Surely there's a copyright infringement issue with pressing a vinyl of 'Yellow Submarine', even if it is made from a dead guy...
In my last will and testament, I will request that the record be played on the anniversary of my death, or the assets they received from me will become public property. On the record itself - a recording of me banging their mother / grandmother / great grandmother. Take that leeches!
My kids would likely take one look at it, wonder what it was, and toss it in the trash.
Can I get my ashes pressed into an ipod?
That seems like an awful lot of effort just to make sure that your family are unable to listen to your final message to them.
"So, Bob, do you have a record player?"
"I think Grandpa Smith has a turntable on the old stereo system in his living room."
http://alternatives.rzero.com/
I think mine will just say "boo!"
Hopefully Memorex.
Last words, "Cough, gag, gasp, aaaahhhhhh".
Why make something that is only going to fade with time until it itself dies again.
I'd rather have my remains made into a Diamond
*DrugCheese rants*
"For the road to salvation and repentance must be paved up the avenue of my soul, and not up yours... up yours... up yours... up yours..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr8xYH9ork8
If theres a bustle in your hedgerow, dont be alarmed now. It's just the spring clean for the may queen. Yes there are two roads you can go down, but int the long run. Theres still time to change the row you're on.
Remember, for them to press a *copy* of any given song, you must have obtained a license for the right to reproduce a copy of that song onto vinyl.
It's called "mechanical rights" in the trade.
I suspect the RIAA lawyes will be called in to file a cease and desist against "And Vinyly" to refuse to record any music or performance onto your vinyl without first obtaining a license to reproduce said work from the copyright holder.
And you can't even have them record nothing/silence on your vinyl without infringing upon John Cage's 4'33" (c)1952.
Even then, the RIAA can file to have the court seize the unauthorized/unlicensed copy of a copyrighted work (if you record anything other than a performance to which you own the rights to or was recorded prior to enactment of copyright laws to steal creative works from the public domain). And since you're *in* the record, you obviously cannot defend against this in court.
Even if you are *in* the record, the RIAA will still argue that you have merely created a derivative work.
Now, embedding urine and feces in such a vinyl recording of say, some banal pop dreck (Justin Beiber, anyone?) while you are alive could be argued and defended that the work was a work of parody and critical commentary on the underlying recording.
Oh, great, just as turn tables all but vanish from the face of the earth we invent something to make them vanish faster. It would creep me out to listen to a dead person's planned recording, so it would have to be something I would pass on to my kids, who would probably be disinterested. There go two generations of disuse and disinterest during which more turntables would vanish.
Why not engrave the deceased thoughts on buggy whips?
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
Well now we know what to do with Charles Manson.
Can it have 2 sides? On one side I can calmly be exclaiming how great Heaven is. On the other side, however........
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
I'd prefer something more cryptic like having this but of my face (and maybe less creepy)
Horror records, we make dead people into records, for the people who are still alive. I am playing on your record player and im... still alive.
Why wait till death, press yourself into a Vinyl right now!
You can't handle the truth.
I wanted to get cremated, but I wound up just making an ash of myself...
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_or_Alive_(band)
"Although considered a one-hit wonder in the United States, two of their singles reached the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100. "You Spin Me Round" reached #11 in 1985 and "Brand New Lover" reached #15 in 1986."
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You're o.k. until your grandkid pitches you in trash trash because you won't play on his iPod SubPico
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
A more expensive post-cremation...procedure...I've heard about is a company that takes your ashes and subjects them to intense pressures for days (maybe even weeks). After the process is done, you're left with a rough diamond, which is (reportedly) tinted blue because of the composition of your body. Costs thousands of dollars, but then you get a new existence as a sparkly piece of carbon.
(((dB)))
spin my grave?
Can it play Another Bites the Dust by Queen?
I would so much prefer this to happen after I am dead.
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
riaa is gonna have a field day with this.
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do fat people get a double LP?
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