SubGenius rarity on Ebay

Date: Tue, Apr 2, 2002 2:39 PM

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

Modemac <modemac@modemac.com> wrote:

> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=855370824
>
> The guy doesn't include a picture, but it sounds like a vinyl 45
> album. Remember those things? They were those big black shiny
> plastic devices used for storing music before CDs were invented.

No, it's a flexidisk. Runs at 33.3 rpm and otherwise plays like a vinyl
record, on a record player, but is extremely thin and flimsy. I have a
big stack of them here. I was thinking about putting them in the
Scatalog, but we did that some years back and literally nobody bought
them -- I think it was $3 then. I would have to charge more like $10
for them because they have to be mailed in a stiff flat cardboard case
or they're useless -- they get a permanent curl.

The guy's right, it is a killer collage. Puzzling Evidence did the
first cut but it was real inside-joke so I re-edited it. The material
is on... I forget, Media Barrage 0 I believe. POSSIBLE also the Best of
Hour of Slack and/or the MB 10 album -- we used it a lot, and it was
made of pieces that were themselves used a lot, so it's almost a moot
point.

There was (and is?) only one company in the world that makes
flexidisks, in St. Petersburg Florida, or maybe Tampa. I recall
actually driving by the place. It's run by Christians and they were
leery of pressing the Book promo flexidisc, but McGraw-Hill paid so
they did. National Geographic, Guitar Player Magazine, other mags used
to occasionally include flexis in their pages, but now hardly anyone
has a record player.

The "Bob" comic book from Rip off Press, which also shows up on Ebay --
sheesh, we were lucky to sell 10 of those a year for $2.50 when we had
them. That comic was actually banned in New Zealand, no shit, on
account of Care Dog. And POOP DOG is an ACTUAL TV cartoon character.

Let this be a lesson to those who tell themselves they're gonna order
that book, CD or CD-R or video from the scatalog "later." Not only is
it cheaper to buy this stuff from the person who hand-made it, but it's
about umpteen jillion times "cooler."

I also have 3 boxes of old Hour of Slack tapes that were returned by
stations after use -- hundreds of show episodes. $6 each.

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