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Couple Sends Record Player Wedding Invitations

Posted by samzenpus on from the music-makers dept.

kfogel writes "Karen Sandler (a lawyer at the Software Freedom Law Center) and Mike Tarantino (a professional musician) are getting married in May. They've sent out the coolest wedding invitation ever: a beautifully packaged flexidisc record where the invitation itself is the record player. The song was written by Mike, is performed by Karen and Mike together, and FTW is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. The person who designed the invitations — a friend of the couple's — has blogged about it."

13 of 64 comments (clear)

  1. Slashdot the wedding by suso · · Score: 2

    I think this is an invitation for all of us to crash this wedding.

  2. Perhaps by redemtionboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I might get a-round to replying to this one.

    1. Re:Perhaps by nitroscen · · Score: 4, Funny

      I might get a-round to replying to this one.

      This may the worst pun on record ever.

    2. Re:Perhaps by guppysap13 · · Score: 3, Funny

      You really turned the tables on him.

    3. Re:Perhaps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      As puns go, he barely scratched the surface.

    4. Re:Perhaps by snspdaarf · · Score: 2

      Stop needling him.

      --
      Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
    5. Re:Perhaps by SeaFox · · Score: 2

      We'll hear more once he gets his groove on.

  3. OMFG WFT *is* that? by gr8_phk · · Score: 2

    Everyone on slashdot under 30 is having a crisis right now, having never seen such a thing. Many under 20 have probably never even heard of a record player.. OMFG how does it make sound without electricity?!?!?! Ahhhhhh.

    1. Re:OMFG WFT *is* that? by h4rr4r · · Score: 3, Funny

      My record players always used electricity. Sorry grandpa but the handcrank is for chumps and old geezers.

    2. Re:OMFG WFT *is* that? by Splod · · Score: 3, Insightful

      this thing is going to make any song sound like it was sung by Mickey Mouse on a 5 day meth & vodka bender.

      Way to get the point...

  4. Van by Errol+backfiring · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I once saw (on TV) a record player that was shaped like a van. You would put the record on a table, and the van would drive over it in circles, playing the record. That was way cool, but I never saw it again...

    --
    Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
  5. Vinyl Killer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    That would be the Tamco Soundwagon, also known as "Vinyl Killer":

    http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/tamco_soundwagon.html
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEwBEcV3gWM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6de784m8hxY
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-46fxdLoZM

  6. Re:Not new by KingofSpades · · Score: 2

    I remember seing a german paper record player like this one in the eighties. It was voice only and I was amazed. The sound on this one isn't that great. There is an other design with a paper-cone.