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John Peel's The Space online record collection goes live

mel the bellmel the bell
edited May 2012 in Chit chat
sounds like a dream for us geeky vinyl hoarders

article here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-17894985

website here
http://thespace.org/items/s000004u

already found some i have lol
ABC - lexicon of love
AC temple - sourpuss

he has the "video" cover adam and the ants - dirk wears white sox tho, which i think is the reissue, i thought hed have the normal black and white cover one
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  • alanspecalanspec
    edited May 2012
    Nice linky.
    Does anyone else instantly phantom-smell vinyl when you see shelves of records? I can smell the vinyl now - even though I'm sitting in a bright, noisey data centre at the mo :)
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  • HairyHairy
    edited May 2012
    alanspec wrote: »
    Nice linky.
    Does anyone else instantly phantom-smell vinyl when you see shelves of records? I can smell the vinyl now - even though I'm sitting in a bright, noisey data centre at the mo :)

    Dunno, I'm sat next to a few shelves of vinyl :)

    It's great that all John Peel's collection is available for all to see, I'm sure it's what he would have wanted. I'll probably dribble on my keyboard :)


    EDIT: Cool, you can play some of them too, listening to: Save the last Gherkin for me! - Mike Absalom
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited May 2012
    Hairy wrote: »
    Dunno, I'm sat next to a few shelves of vinyl :)

    It's great that all John Peel's collection is available for all to see, I'm sure it's what he would have wanted. I'll probably dribble on my keyboard :)


    EDIT: Cool, you can play some of them too, listening to: Save the last Gherkin for me! - Mike Absalom

    Yeah, the ones that are on spotify, i dont do spotify tho
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited May 2012
    I'd like them to do the same with Bob Munkhouse's collection.
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  • fogfog
    edited May 2012
    well the monkhouse stuff, he didn't own the copyright and he got taken to court about it. (he lent a tape to someone or something ? )
    it's good though, as he had stuff that the tv companies don't own.they are probably transferring it to digital formats no doubt.

    I saw on the news about the space.. it's a pity there isn't more like John Peel around now, what he did sadly pretty much went with him when he passed away.

    one of my friend is a vinyl junkie, he has a silly amount 10's of 1000's of records also.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited May 2012
    fog wrote: »
    well the monkhouse stuff, he didn't own the copyright and he got taken to court about it. (he lent a tape to someone or something ? )
    it's good though, as he had stuff that the tv companies don't own.they are probably transferring it to digital formats no doubt.

    I saw on the news about the space.. it's a pity there isn't more like John Peel around now, what he did sadly pretty much went with him when he passed away.

    Surely John didn't own the copyright on all his record either. PS: Munkhouse lent a tape to Wogan's son for personal viewing. Its akin to me taping Neighbours and letting a mate borrow it, i.e. a really trivial reason to call someone into question.
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  • fogfog
    edited May 2012
    yer it is trivial, it's a bit like owning a VCR, a number of times my family and me have been on TV, and recorded it..

    *BUT* according to the law your supposed to wipe it after 24 hours.. yer right.. we all have them kept in them fake bookcase type covers :lol:
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited May 2012
    fog wrote: »
    yer it is trivial, it's a bit like owning a VCR, a number of times my family and me have been on TV, and recorded it..

    *BUT* according to the law your supposed to wipe it after 24 hours.. yer right.. we all have them kept in them fake bookcase type covers :lol:

    If that's the case, and I've not got the knowledge to refute that, Bob would have lost not won his case and had it all confiscated, but it wasn't.
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  • fogfog
    edited May 2012
    think his one though was to do with "distribution" , much as if I gave you vhs of err bullseye etc. because you missed it back in the day.

    only reason I remember it , because I found it funny. as obv. the makers of VCR's etc.. also make broadcast equipment at the time. .e.g. sony / jvc / panasonic
  • JimmoJimmo
    edited May 2012
    fog wrote: »
    yer it is trivial, it's a bit like owning a VCR, a number of times my family and me have been on TV, and recorded it..

    *BUT* according to the law your supposed to wipe it after 24 hours.. yer right.. we all have them kept in them fake bookcase type covers :lol:

    No, they tried to make it a law, but it was dropped when they realised just how unenforceable it was.
  • festershinetopfestershinetop
    edited May 2012
    Back to the john peel site are they going to let you look at the front/back covers and inlays in the future as well or is it just that little thumbnail of the front.
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