/ 6 9 9 7 4 2 / 6 2 8 3 1 5 / 7 1 7 2 2 8 / 9 3 6 5 5 7 / 8 1 3 3 8 6 / 5 1 9 2 2 5 /

A june release is pretty soon, I can cope with that.

Please lets not have a long drawn out 6 month annoucement-release schedule, that would literally make the internet crash.

Whatever. Just announce the album or don't. I never liked the whole "mysterious enigma" shtick they portray and now with these mysterious vinyls that popped up, idk, it's just tired at this point. I'm not even a huge boc fan. I just dig the music.

Just my opinion. Sorry if I'm being a party pooper.

  On 4/22/2013 at 4:10 AM, zaphod said:

i think i may have located a way out. there's a back door through the plaid subforum. it opens up once every night for three minutes. if i can get a mimetic subprogram going i can probably create a countermeasure to blank a core command. maybe from a tokyo number. i'll pop out somewhere in empty dataspace, but at least i won't be on the boc subforum anymore. i'll have to unregister from watmm and trash my ono sendai. it's a big risk. i could end up on xltronic. i could end up dead. i don't have a choice.

lol i come on here for the first time in a great while and see a classic zaphod post. i thought we were both done with watmm, dude?

anyway, wtf ... if this is real (seems 95% likely), i don't even know how to calculate how much these six records will be worth.

THE PLURAL OF VINYL IS VINYL

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:09 PM, playbynumbers said:

 

  On 4/22/2013 at 4:10 AM, zaphod said:

i think i may have located a way out. there's a back door through the plaid subforum. it opens up once every night for three minutes. if i can get a mimetic subprogram going i can probably create a countermeasure to blank a core command. maybe from a tokyo number. i'll pop out somewhere in empty dataspace, but at least i won't be on the boc subforum anymore. i'll have to unregister from watmm and trash my ono sendai. it's a big risk. i could end up on xltronic. i could end up dead. i don't have a choice.

 

 

 

lol i come on here for the first time in a great while and see a classic zaphod post. i thought we were both done with watmm, dude?

 

anyway, wtf ... if this is real (seems 95% likely), i don't even know how to calculate how much these six records will be worth.

 

hi PBN!

i guess as much as the kaleidoscope, since there isn't actually any music on them (that snippet is not a song).

*commits seppuku*

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:15 PM, Ron Manager said:

 

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:09 PM, playbynumbers said:

 

  On 4/22/2013 at 4:10 AM, zaphod said:

i think i may have located a way out. there's a back door through the plaid subforum. it opens up once every night for three minutes. if i can get a mimetic subprogram going i can probably create a countermeasure to blank a core command. maybe from a tokyo number. i'll pop out somewhere in empty dataspace, but at least i won't be on the boc subforum anymore. i'll have to unregister from watmm and trash my ono sendai. it's a big risk. i could end up on xltronic. i could end up dead. i don't have a choice.

 

 

 

lol i come on here for the first time in a great while and see a classic zaphod post. i thought we were both done with watmm, dude?

 

anyway, wtf ... if this is real (seems 95% likely), i don't even know how to calculate how much these six records will be worth.

 

 

hi PBN!

 

i guess as much as the kaleidoscope, since there isn't actually any music on them (that snippet is not a song).

 

but there are only six! in the world! and each is unique (apparently). plus a snippet of music is better than nothing ...

Also, BoC is very much Summer-music imo. I hardly listen to them in Autumn and not at all in Winter.

If this is legit, they picked a great moment for it - it's about to get warm outside, I was starting to get into Music Has The Right again after a long break, a new Album in June, July or even August would be pretty sweet.

I also think it's a neat thing to do this offline, in the real world, much better than some internet-shenanigans.

Why would I get upset about BoC doing something cryptic? I'd expect that from them, and it's fun if it turns out to be true. A regular announcement would have been a bit of a letdown even.

Still, I'm Scully on this entire thing until I see something (more) solid, I just wouldn't wanna get disappointed - It's not like Joyrex or even mdg haven't spread false information multiple times before (purposely or otherwise). Also the watmm-Scully is a lot sexier than the Twoism-Mulder, to me anyways.

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:12 PM, mcbpete said:

THE PLURAL OF VINYL IS VINYL

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This is a lovely peevological case study. In the first place, of course, the "rule" is a doubtful one at best. Vinyl is a mass noun, like beer or cheese or glass, and as such, it doesn't have a plural. Not having a plural is basically what being a "mass noun" means a mass noun refers to stuff that comes in variable but conceptually undifferentiated quantities that are measured rather than counted.

 

But English also has a general morphological process that Arnold Zwicky has called "Countification", whereby the plural form of a mass noun can be used to refer to more than one type or instance of the named category of stuff. Thus we can talk about "Mexican beers" to refer to brands of beer associated with Mexico; and you can give your order to a waiter by saying "two beers".

 

Countification has become lexicalized in the case of some mass nouns, like beers, wines, cheeses, waters, bronzes, rubbers, and so on.. But it's available in principle for pretty much any mass noun, where NOUNs might be used to mean "types of NOUN" or "instances of NOUN". Thus (members of the gang aside) blood doesn't have a common countified plural bloods, but the 1854 Notes of M. Bernard's Lectures on the Blood tells us that "All the analyses already given have been general, as others will be given hereafter when the blood of particular parts, or when particular bloods are described"; and also that " in this respect all bloods do not resemble each other"; and that "The distinction of color does not exist in the foetus; in it both bloods [i.e. arterial and venous] have exactly the same tint". You may be able to think of a mass noun that can't plausibly be countified, but I haven't come up with one.

 

What about the zero-plurals like deer, fish, sheep, shrimp, etc.? Does vinyl belong in that group? As far as I know, the only significant regularity there is the zero-plural-for-game-animals pattern discussed in "The European Council legislates English morphology", 10/5/2003; "We have deer and elk and bear and mice around here", 5/26/2004; "Psycholinguistics in the logging industry", 6/6/2004; "Chad back in the news", 5/30/2008. But vinyl records are not exactly game animals; except that maybe, on second thought, the folks who administer tar and feathers to users of "vinyls" are also people who hang a brace of vinyl on their wall as a sort of hunting trophy.

 

Another pocket of regularly zero-plural nouns is ethnonyms in -ese: Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese vinyl is clearly not a member of that group. And there are a few zero-plural units of currency: yen, yuan, rand, Beyond that, there are sporadic examples like cannon and aircraft.

 

So "the plural of vinyl is 'vinyl'" is an invented "rule", more or less the opposite of the general patterns in the language, which a convinced minority has promoted to the point where "people are tarred and feathered for saying 'vinyls'" in some settings. This is an unusually pure case of peevological emergence, without either tradition or logic on its side, and also (as far as i can tell) without any single authoritative figure behind the idea.

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That is quite surprising. I was born in 1956, andI recall "vinyls" (= "vinyl records") to go back decades (I particularly remember the term from New Musical Express in my early teens). Google Books confirms:

 

"While a few audio purists might quibble over the fidelity of some of the vintage vinyls " - Time magazine, Volume 84, 1964

 

"When the LP development began, Mendelssohn had the albums remade as ten-inch single vinyls" - The Atlantic, Volume 205, 1960

Friend who works at Warp Records says it's really happening. Said "Summer time release".

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:09 PM, playbynumbers said:

 

  On 4/22/2013 at 4:10 AM, zaphod said:

i think i may have located a way out. there's a back door through the plaid subforum. it opens up once every night for three minutes. if i can get a mimetic subprogram going i can probably create a countermeasure to blank a core command. maybe from a tokyo number. i'll pop out somewhere in empty dataspace, but at least i won't be on the boc subforum anymore. i'll have to unregister from watmm and trash my ono sendai. it's a big risk. i could end up on xltronic. i could end up dead. i don't have a choice.

 

 

 

lol i come on here for the first time in a great while and see a classic zaphod post. i thought we were both done with watmm, dude?

 

anyway, wtf ... if this is real (seems 95% likely), i don't even know how to calculate how much these six records will be worth.

Hey, PBN. Good to see you. Did you ever get that DVD?

edit: @ pbn

yeah, but i don't know... i'd be willing to pay loads more for, say, a limited 100-copy pressing of some record with actual music than one of these. no doubt there are some insane people who would happily drop a grand or two on one of these though... what did the Prince Murat cassette auction reach before being closed?

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:18 PM, fumi said:

 

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:09 PM, playbynumbers said:

 

  On 4/22/2013 at 4:10 AM, zaphod said:

i think i may have located a way out. there's a back door through the plaid subforum. it opens up once every night for three minutes. if i can get a mimetic subprogram going i can probably create a countermeasure to blank a core command. maybe from a tokyo number. i'll pop out somewhere in empty dataspace, but at least i won't be on the boc subforum anymore. i'll have to unregister from watmm and trash my ono sendai. it's a big risk. i could end up on xltronic. i could end up dead. i don't have a choice.

 

 

lol i come on here for the first time in a great while and see a classic zaphod post. i thought we were both done with watmm, dude?

 

anyway, wtf ... if this is real (seems 95% likely), i don't even know how to calculate how much these six records will be worth.

Hey, PBN. Good to see you. Did you ever get that DVD?

 

aloha, fumi. DVD? i may have, remind me what was on it ... this would be many years ago, i'm assuming.

  On 4/22/2013 at 4:17 PM, messiaen said:

i dunno if you were to make sure they were in busy record shops run by friends of yours that you trust, you could reasonably assume that they would all be found in a month i think. certainly if you put one in my local, rubadub, someone would see it within hours, and it wouldnt take long before someone recognised it for being worthwhile. if it was in rubadub and lasted longer than 3 days, i would be suprised.

say they did this... they'd have to tell the staff (most likely massive electronic music aficionados) to keep schtum and the likelihood of them actually keeping schtum is zero.

The funny thing is, I love BoC, I'd go so far and say they're my favorite musicians. Still, I have a tendency to "save good stuff for later", so I haven't even listened to all of their material yet - I only know Side A of A Few Old Tunes - Side B and the entire Vol.2 are completely new to me.

If this turns out to be yet another hoax, I got these to look forward to. If not, awesome anyway. Kind of win-win for me!

these strange vinyls arrived in the post today...

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:22 PM, playbynumbers said:

 

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:18 PM, fumi said:

 

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:09 PM, playbynumbers said:

 

  On 4/22/2013 at 4:10 AM, zaphod said:

i think i may have located a way out. there's a back door through the plaid subforum. it opens up once every night for three minutes. if i can get a mimetic subprogram going i can probably create a countermeasure to blank a core command. maybe from a tokyo number. i'll pop out somewhere in empty dataspace, but at least i won't be on the boc subforum anymore. i'll have to unregister from watmm and trash my ono sendai. it's a big risk. i could end up on xltronic. i could end up dead. i don't have a choice.

 

 

 

lol i come on here for the first time in a great while and see a classic zaphod post. i thought we were both done with watmm, dude?

 

anyway, wtf ... if this is real (seems 95% likely), i don't even know how to calculate how much these six records will be worth.

Hey, PBN. Good to see you. Did you ever get that DVD?

 

aloha, fumi. DVD? i may have, remind me what was on it ... this would be many years ago, i'm assuming.

Maybe late 2004. You sent me some stuff and I ordered something for you from Amazon. Can't remember what it was.

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:27 PM, fumi said:

Maybe late 2004. You sent me some stuff and I ordered something for you from Amazon. Can't remember what it was.

 

ah yeah, I think it was a Godard DVD. indeed!

Thought it was some movie? Anyway it was before the forum crash in 2005 so I can't check.

Gone days.

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:20 PM, Ron Manager said:

edit: @ pbn

 

yeah, but i don't know... i'd be willing to pay loads more for, say, a limited 100-copy pressing of some record with actual music than one of these. no doubt there are some insane people who would happily drop a grand or two on one of these though... what did the Prince Murat cassette auction reach before being closed?

800 dollars.

iduneven

i have a feeling they are going to milk the crap out of this. i'm expecting some massive special edition with old stuff and costs exceeding $100.

pretty excited myself, but i am not getting sucked into some makeshift puzzle. just let me know when i can preorder from someone other than bleep and then let me know when it is going to be at my house.

enough is enough.

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:22 PM, playbynumbers said:

 

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:18 PM, fumi said:

 

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:09 PM, playbynumbers said:

 

  On 4/22/2013 at 4:10 AM, zaphod said:

i think i may have located a way out. there's a back door through the plaid subforum. it opens up once every night for three minutes. if i can get a mimetic subprogram going i can probably create a countermeasure to blank a core command. maybe from a tokyo number. i'll pop out somewhere in empty dataspace, but at least i won't be on the boc subforum anymore. i'll have to unregister from watmm and trash my ono sendai. it's a big risk. i could end up on xltronic. i could end up dead. i don't have a choice.

 

 

 

lol i come on here for the first time in a great while and see a classic zaphod post. i thought we were both done with watmm, dude?

 

anyway, wtf ... if this is real (seems 95% likely), i don't even know how to calculate how much these six records will be worth.

Hey, PBN. Good to see you. Did you ever get that DVD?

 

aloha, fumi. DVD? i may have, remind me what was on it ... this would be many years ago, i'm assuming.

Maybe late 2004. You sent me some stuff and I ordered something for you from Amazon. Can't remember what it was.

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:29 PM, playbynumbers said:

 

  On 4/22/2013 at 5:27 PM, fumi said:

Maybe late 2004. You sent me some stuff and I ordered something for you from Amazon. Can't remember what it was.

 

ah yeah, I think it was a Godard DVD. indeed!

Thought it was some movie? Anyway it was before the forum crash in 2005 so I can't check.

Some sort of official statement (via warp.net or music70.com or whatever) would make this the best Earth Day ever.

crazy though. there really is a bunker at those coords:

www.subritt.org.uk/rsg/rok/db/989427828.html

  On 4/22/2013 at 4:26 PM, Frank Poole said:

Fuck this mystery bullshit.