THE FLEXI DISC?

[@Tom5TomEntertainment]

All my vinyl can flex. Once.

[@beatlesfan1348]

Then they break

[@lucamartines3575]

guy from 7 years ago you funny

[@theinkwretch1]

I am an American living Beijing where vinyl is not at all a thing. there is little to no vintage music culture and here things that are thought of as old are generally not cool and disregarded as useless by the pop music obsessed youth. Because of this China can in a way be a record diggers dream when you can find them because store owners often just want to get rid of them unless they run some of the specialty shops. While out shopping I found a resale shop which is very rare here in Beijing it had an entire box full of these some even printed on old x-rays. The records i found there were during the Mao cultural revolution era and because of this many people were unable to afford full sized vinyl so the so called Flexi record was very popular. It was also more easy to sneak in music from western countries and move them around in the Chinese music black market in this format do to the ease of hiding them. Many are unmarked or simply say foreign music on the surface and the paper covers were oddly sewn not glued. needless to say i bought the entire box. in certain places in the world this format was one of rebellion and defiance. Just thought you vinyl boys might find it interesting. great channel btw

[@vinyleyezz]

+theinkwretch1 that is SO incredible! I've heard of those types of records! Very cool that you picked up a whole box of them!

[@mathewbrown7304]

Vinyl Eyezz noice

[@Fifury161]

I can't believe you have never come across these before! In the 80s they came inside many magazines (similar to the cover mounted cassette tape). A lot of training books, especially guitar lesson books and a few comics. ;-)

[@randomperson4617]

theinkwretch1 Hello, city. How do you talk? Is the government official's voice ur voice?

[@DwightLivesMatter]

Very interesting story! I wonder how much those are worth now in America.

[@fortherecord1569]

Flexi discs were popular to find included in a magazine. Sometimes it would be band interviews, music and sometimes just an advertisement. You think ads on KZbin are bad? Imagine having to stop reading your magazine, cut out the flexi disc and put it on your turn table to listen to the ad :) (far fetched, but true!) ALSO, a lot of the time, these flexi discs would be mounted on thin cardboard to give them a firm surface to be played on. In the 60's The Monkees had flexi discs printed on CEREAL BOXES! Eat your cereal, cut out the record from the box and listen to The Monkees music. MORE WEIRD than THAT, was these Monkees cereal box records just got RE-ISSUED!

[@vinyleyezz]

Haha it's interesting seeing how things have evolved over time!

[@DwightLivesMatter]

I would prefer that a million times over ads on KZbin.

[@yugo4515]

Whaaaaat!? Cereal flexis!?

[@bloodfart3331]

They still had those cereal box records into the 70s and 80s. They ALWAYS sounded like ass.

[@flutch1284]

It would be good actually :D

[@iago68]

yes, i admit it. i am OLD enough to remember when this was a thing inside the back covers of some really cool children's books. they seemed super groovy at the time. but hey, i was eight years old and easily thrilled. thanks for showing these things!

[@vinyleyezz]

+iago68 haha no problem!

[@FlintBits]

You didn't even play it..

[@colinmcconnon5752]

He can't because of copyright rules.

[@Phoneygravy]

@@colinmcconnon5752 He could've played a few seconds without any issues. You see other youtubers do it all the time without issue. Techmoan frequently does this for example

[@bloodromance4776]

@@Phoneygravy yeah, this channel is all about shittalking

[@LMacNeill]

I must be a lot older than you are... Because I can remember these things being in magazines when I was a kid. All kinds of different advertising campaigns used them back in the '70s and early '80s.

[@nathanwallace3337]

LMacNeill there's a magazine I subscribe to called new noise that has a flexi in each issue

[@j.m.channell8938]

I'm sure you might be older than this guy, but he also doesn't know nearly as much about records as he pretends to.

[@robertknight4672]

LMacNeill I one that was advertising an actual music album with samples from that album on it.

[@medes5597]

Justin Channell yeah to have never heard of flexi... I mean seriously he paints himself as an expert and he knows sod all clearly.

[@TorstenAdair]

According to Discogs, flexi-discs date back to 1928.

[@Shamanator]

I have one of The Archies' "Sugar, Sugar" cut out from a Super Sugar Crisp cereal box in 1969.

[@Jamie.Laszlo]

It's on cardboard tho. Is that the same thing?

[@theechickengamerz]

So does he!

[@ben.9663]

Have you heard of the 'Recard'? It's basically a greeting card that comes with a 45 record and the actual card can be turned into a DIY turntable. You then play the record on the card/turntable and it plays a message based on what holiday the card is for. I think they're pretty cool and they're only like £5 and £2 postage

[@vinyleyezz]

Oh wow I'll check that out!

[@bustedcrusted7475]

When I was given a spinet piano, inside of the piano bench, there was a stach of old piano books, although there was a set of old piano books and in each one was a flexi-disc with someone speaking and playing along with the student. The books were still in their plastic so the records were new.

[@thetman0068]

I found a flexidisc recently that actually instructs you to put it on top of another solid record.

[@birddogfreemann]

yes that is actually how to optimize their sound

[@Dave30867]

They use to put them in heavy metal magazines in the 80s it was a way to preview the bands latest issues before you buy the lp .

[@Junior-cp9se]

And most of them in the magazine were red

[@ynjlky7121]

FlexiDisc was a very successful format here in Japan during the 60's as SonoSheet or PhonoSheet. The multiple disc packages complete with deluxe booklets were less expensive than the regular vinyl packages.

[@CoolDudeClem]

I have a few of these, I found those at a thrift store. I know of a 12th type of record called a dictabelt, where a plastic belt has grooves etched on to it, and works in the same way as a record does.

[@nickdimaggio7358]

Members of the Beatles Fan Club received a special Christmas recording on Flexi Disc every year from 1963 to 1969. I have at least 4 of them. Each year the group recorded holiday greetings, messages, and inpromptu songs probably made up on the spot for their fans. They've all been uploaded to KZbin--just search "Beatles Christmas recordings." Fidelity was o.k. but if you didn't place a coin on the label the disc wouldn't rotate properly. Thanks Vinyl Eyezz! Just discovered your videos and I'm enjoying 'em all!

[@gdit1410]

When I was a kid growing up in the 60's , it seemed like those flexi-discs were everywhere . As I recall , Reader's Digest used them on occasion for promoting / advertising their multi - record sets . Also , unless I'm confused , I owned one that came from an issue of Mad magazine , ( circa 1970 ) , parodying that ' new ' hit tv show , All in the Family .

[@NeedleDropRules]

Yes!!! I have one from a MAD magazine as well. It has a picture of Alfred E. Numan's face on it. It's absolutely horrible, but hilarious to own!

[@Y0Y0Evan]

I found a flexi disc at a soon to be abandoned music store. Thanks for telling me about this!

[@cjc363636]

I had quite a few of these back in the 70s, and I think I remember a version of flexi that was clear but glued onto a cardboard cereal box or toy box. So it's basically a flexi but with cardboard backing and art.

[@hamrecords]

Just found a motörhead flexidisc and sold it for 60 dollars! ;) (Im Happy)

[@vinyleyezz]

Nice!!

[@theo9952]

Good for you ! Bad for the bozzo who payed 60 dollars for it ! lol

[@ControlTheAirwaves]

Vinyl Eyezz can you please tell me how you got the parlor trick record. I saw the video where you said you wish you had it and it's impossible to find. Thanks.

[@terrywilcox6189]

Go to Parlour Trick's website; there will be a GOLD Disk version available, costing $111 BUCKS, in mid 2017

[@Not_me9791]

theo9952 well, maybe it worth 100 USD now! i see u know nothing “john snow”!!

[@norbit936]

I have some flexidiscs that came with a vintage FisherPrice record player i bought

[@vinyleyezz]

Nice!

[@alec4672]

I was in a record store in Detroit once and they had a photo booth but instead of posing you spoke and instead of picture a flexi came out. Like a audio post card to mail to a friend on vacation. It was super cool.

[@TheCommentator353]

Got one. It's a guitar tuning disc and is very useful for detecting speed stability due to the long monophonic, static tones.

[@davidellis5141]

The Cure " Lament " and The Jam " Pop Art Poem " are the 2 best in my life. Both tracks on compilations now.

[@samflynn2400]

I have a very rare Strawberry Switchblade flexi-disc from 1984, it has a sampler from there first album.

[@vinyleyezz]

+Sam Flynn nice!

[@michaelespinoza5707]

Glad I found your informative video. I just got my first Flexi disc and was confused. Had no idea what it was and if it played music. Thank you again.

[@nmgt1048]

I remember these records by finding them in magazines. Mad magazine had one that plays a different song every time you put the needle on the same side. The ancestor of the flexi disc was the cardboard record printed on the back of a cereal box back in the early 1960s.

[@thewhalenorman]

I Live in Russia and i have LOTS of flexi-disks. By the way, they were made in USSR to lower the price of records, some of them came in some music magazines. So you had to cut it from the magazine first and play it then. Also, we had an opportunity to record our own song or congatulation at the studio on such flexi-disk, so in the end we got a really cool and a stunning gift. I remember only three colors - Light blue (Most popular), Red (Really rare and sometimes re-mastered versions) and White (Congratulation flexi-disk), but maybe there were more.

[@rivasfredy1989]

I had no idea what these things were, as a record collector, I just bought a vinyl from a favorite artists and this piece included a flexi disc. I then thought to myself what’s a flexi disc?. Can’t wait to hear mine when it arrives. And thank you for that information.

[@qux55]

I had a Tampa bay buccaneers flexi disc in the 80s, it had the old pirate with a knife in his mouth logo

[@jonnybarlow4657]

Hey. I was given a ton of these as promos for Readers Digest collections in the 80s. Readers Digest used these as teasers to buy full priced collections. They were pretty cool!

[@diegoquaio]

Your videos are awesome Jarrett!!! Wish everyone who's starting a collection would check on them! Thank you!

[@vinyleyezz]

Thanks for watching!

[@thevega14]

I got one in my Tame Impala's collectors box.

[@Y0Y0Evan]

Got one from a closed music store. Found it in a bin, picked it up (obviously thinking of you) and went home happy. :)

[@francescao5060]

Hi I love your channel so much! You have inspired me to try to get into record collecting and I was wondering if you think the Audio Technica AT-LP60 is a good starter turntable. Keep up the great work man I look forward to your new videos!

[@vinyleyezz]

Yes that's a good starter turntable! Thank you for watching my videos!

[@mrfordfan]

+Amazing Kidrauhl No. That is a glorified crosley. No counterweight. Will damage your records.

[@BlueNeon81]

There were some russian (soviet) magazines, which had flexies inside, like Krugozor, Kalabok, etc. And these were also double sided, but mono (western flexies are single sided and also stereo). I had a collection of about 100 soviet flexies, but I throwed them into a trash (in late 1990's), because these were only with spoken words (in russian) and no music. Now I have only two (single sided from Austria, in stereo), one with Mötörhead and one with german electro groups (with Kraftwerk's Das Model).

[@speake7777777]

my grandfather told me about these, that they came free in magazines as "kiddie music" or commercials, and were supposed to be placed on a "real record" to be played. McDonald even released these as a sweepstakes. The one I have is just a bunch of sound clips for a record label as an advertisement, although I might be getting a hold of a movie promotional disk soon.

[@TyroneEpps]

I remember this too

[@MikeBrinkerhoff]

In addition to Flexi Discs that were included in magazines, they used to have similar, probably even lower-quality records that were pressed on to the back of cereal boxes. You'd literally cut it out of the box, pop out the center hole, and put it on your turntable. I sure wish I'd hung on to the one or two I remember having as a kid in the mid '70s!

[@bluenose2932]

Hey Jarrett. New to your channel, so don't know if you've mentioned this already, but here in the UK we're moving over to plastic bank notes. If you hold one of these new notes, and put a corner of it into the groove, you hear the music. Not much use, but it's kinda fun!

[@blackpoolbarmpot]

I have a "Flexi-Disc" that is recorded on both sides at 33 1/3 rpm, yet is so thin, you can see light through it. It was issued free with a copy of the satirical magazine "Private Eye" in 1989. The disc its self is called "Skeye Flexi-Dish".

[@joffness2]

Mad magazine 1979 "Super spectacular day" A multigroove record with a catchy song about what an awesome day you're having..... "until...." things start to go wrong in one of 8 different endings!

[@esteeb67]

I found this video looking for a recording I had as a kid that was on flexi disc. I was a young kid in the 70s and we got those flexi discs included in toys and magazines (like Dynamite Magazine). I was looking for a flexi disc that was included in my toy "Earthquake Tower". Disaster movies were hugely popular back then and this toy combined the thrill of the movies Earthquake and The Towering Inferno. The flexi disc was a soundtrack with sound effects mixed in. Good stuff! I also had a few from Dynamite. Some may still exist in my basement, but are probably not playable or barely playable anymore. Thanks for the vid!

[@stephenestrada8942]

I actually just ordered one so I looked up "what are flexi discs" and that's how I found your video. thanks it was very helpful!

[@totz_the_plaid9625]

Flexidiscs were also given out with magazines in the past. The format was safer for shipping, since a regular 45 could get broken when packed with the otherwise flexible magazines.

[@GustavoDeSantaFe]

Thank you for the video. I just got a flexi, and I wanted to try it, but didn't know any tip. Thanks!

[@SarahJaneHugsU]

I recently got PUP’s flexi they had in their zine

[@lovepeaceandsoulfullrighto9053]

Sarah Murphy I’m just now hearing about this but it is not new to me. Mad Magazine had at least one issue with this with altitude endings. I never thought to look for info about it...

[@themadsamplist]

I don't have them now but I remember them from when I was younger. Lot of advertising songs were cut on that or like a freebie that came with a magazine or something like that.

[@Gr1msauce]

I got a clear blue one that Cancer Bats put out last year, they are such a cool idea!

[@vinyleyezz]

+Gr1msauce nice!

[@pyotyrprepka6422]

There were also some on the backs of cereal boxes stamped on the back of the box that had a thinly laminated vinyl plastic about 2- 3 mils thick on the cardboard. I remember collecting the Archie's songs as well as others from the Honeycomb cereal boxes when I was a kid

[@Scooot1972]

I used to get loads of these in the 80s. They're promo discs you would get free from magazines and some news papers. Mostly they would get creased and bent or it would be music I didn't like back then so they would go from the cover of the mag straight in the bin. Wish I had kept them all now.

[@briansagarsee3732]

My mom has an old one from '76 that is a recording of a guy talking about how great it is to have the pisces starsign. It also has a speed of 33 despite being the size of a 7".

[@tur74d56]

I have The Jets Crush on You from 1986 on Flexi Disc, it came with a magazine

[@ElectroPotato]

They were popular in the Soviet union in the 70's and 80's as magazine inserts. I have some of them, they are mono and double sided!

[@vinyleyezz]

So cool!

[@mannyo1221]

I found one the other day, buried deep in a cupboard. I can't remember it's age, but it was from the cover of UK magazine "Smash Hits" and features two tracks. The tracks are, The Skids playing "The Olympian" and XTC playing "Ten Feet Tall". Both tracks are introduced by David "Kid" Jensen, so that should help date the disc. It was pretty beaten up, but it plays all the way through with no problem on my AT-LP120 with factory AT95-E tracking at just under 2 grams.

[@naftaking]

I remember at some point that flex records were attached to cereal boxes. You would have to use another record under the flex and hope it didn't stop spinning every time you put the needle on it. That, I believe is where putting a coin on it came from.

[@LaurenGlenn]

This takes me back to when I was a kid. We would sometimes have a coin that would slide off the position we had it in and it would hit the stylus.

[@1986Domer]

I used to get books as a child that would have those flexi sheets in the back which you would pull out and read along to.

[@vinyleyezz]

+1986Domer nice!

[@beard78748]

Flexi disc would also be in some computer magazines, back in the 80's, and they would have games on them. For example, you have a Commodore 64, you plug your turntable into the audio input jack and then load the game. They would also use flexi disc for newspapers. If you were blind they would mail these disc at 8 rpm or 16 rpm.

[@Ryanbrio]

Oh man, I want one now! Another great video Jarrett!

[@vinyleyezz]

Thanks for watching Matthew! Another great video coming out tomorrow!

[@Ryanbrio]

Vinyl Eyezz Great, You're one of my favorite KZbin channels btw

[@vinyleyezz]

Thank you so much for watching my videos Matthew! All the support I get on this channel really means a lot to me!

[@Ryanbrio]

No problem!Vinyl Eyezz

[@scantero23]

I got one on RSD 2015 as a promo for Blur’s The Magic Whip. I was pretty stoked about actually owning a Flexi disc since my dad would always talk about how neat they were. Like you said the sound isn’t great but it’s a cool little piece to have.

[@Defensive_Wounds]

Dude, I had some of these from music magazines back when I were a kid! lol I knew they existed since the early 1980s...

[@AnarkaAkaza]

I own a rare limited edition NOFX - I Don't Like Me Anymore Flexi Disc that I got in a magazine release alongside their 2016 Album 'First Ditch Effort'.. Still haven't been able to play it though.. :(

[@chriscuthbertson]

used to love these when they came free with magazines in the 80's

[@AveMcree]

I got a flexi disc.... great video

[@Pfennigpfuchser]

Got my very first flexi disc today. A Hardcore punk classis. Gai - Extermination from 1984. Your video helped me out in playing it.

[@xXNuclearWarXx]

I have a handful of these from Guitar Player magazine, including the Hendrix - Red House live version that you showed in this video. My favorite one is Carlos Santana and Chester Thompson playing a song live called Blues for Salvador.

[@rEdf196]

I have a few flexi discs from Guitar Player Magazine from the 80's one on speed guitar lessons , A Frank and Dweezile Zappa guitar duet (Guitar Player) ,Carlos Santana , an early 90's Bad Brains flexi from Alternative Press Magazine and a 1972 era music book with flexi disc included on how to play blues slide guitar.

[@coreldrawington2423]

i came across them for the first time a few years ago when i bought some second hand birdbooks....there were these strange flexible transparent disks, i knew they were records - each lots of birdsong recordings of various birds :)

[@ElvisChrist]

just got one in the mail with another vinyl purchase and was baffled!!

[@rockstargirl383]

Can you do a video list of things to check when buying a record player from ebay or Craigslist? If not a video of requirements when buying one at all? Love your vids

[@vinyleyezz]

Great idea!

[@basscadet75]

I've only owned two flexi-discs - the first was "Rupert the Bear" by Lush, which was incredibly rare and I believe was given out only with one issue of NME magazine in the UK. The second I still have, which is some Daisy Chainsaw single. It's different in that it's a clear flexi with an actual cardboard backing that has the single artwork on it, so it shows through the flexi-disc itself. I think this may have been released as a standalone item, which is rare for flexis. But it's certainly interesting packaging for a standalone 7" single.

[@vinyleyezz]

+basscadet75 Nice! I really like Lush! That's a cool band! I really like their song "Desire Lines"

[@writerpatrick]

We use to have a couple of Time Life flexidisks. They were basically advertising. And that's probably the best use for them. It's the sort of thing you'd normally only listen to a couple of times so the wear didn't really matter. Their biggest advantage is that they were really cheap to make which is why they were good for ads.

[@TorstenAdair]

Flexi-discs are generally found in magazines. A rare double-side flexi-disc was the one packaged inside the MAD Disco special. MAD also issued the "MAD Mystery Record" which had eight parallel grooves, so you didn't know which variation you would hear! Discogs lists some 21K flexi-discs. If the vinyl/plastic is clear, they can be adhered to a cardboard backing containing a picture. (MAD did this on occasion.)

[@HowardFrischer]

The 1st time I ever saw flexi disc was back in the mid 80s Albert lee and Steve Vai in guitar player magazine.

[@mikeisernie]

These were very popular in the fifties and upward for advertising. In some places and in some industries they replaced the traveling salesman. Companies would record the sales pitch about their new products and then mail out the Flexi discs. I have a CD that a friend made me of several recordings from flexi disc advertisements.

[@vinyleyezz]

Nice! That makes sense, they are very portable and novelty items so I can see them working for advertisements!

[@dsflixfan1]

There was a music magazine called Flexi Pop that included a flexl disc with every issue.

[@RadioParanormaliumPL]

I have a large collection of Polish sound postcards. It also includes something similar to flexidiscs (precisely, sound postcards produced by state-owned Polish companies that had much better audio quality than the 'pirate-produced' ones).

[@YeOldeFootballChannel]

I have 3 flexidiscs. The first is a promo of Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Brain Salad Surgery", the second is another promo of a record by The Faces, and lastly, a very cool flexi where the band Slade speaks to the readers of a women's magazine. BTW, do you know there is a SQUARE 45 rpm record?

[@vinyleyezz]

+FootballGaffesGalore nice! Yeah I'm sure there are all sorts of crazy custom shaped records out there! I talk briefly about the different ones in my video "10 different types of records"

[@YeOldeFootballChannel]

Just to clarify: I have the squared record. It is called "It Takes Two To Tango" by Richard Myhill. It actually entered the UK Charts in 1978. I have the original sleeve which says "DON'T ADJUST YOUR TURNTABLE. IT'S SQUARE". A novelty in that era.

[@vinyleyezz]

FootballGaffesGalore Oh nice!

[@ThermionicValve]

I have a flexy disk by the UK pop group "Thompson Twins" but it does not contain any music. It's actually a computer program containing a adventure game based on the band which the disc plays modulated screeching sounds where you plug the audio output of the record player to the audio input of a 1980's - 8 bit home computer. You need a computer called a Sinclair ZX Spectrum to load & play the game and as soon as the flex disc finishes playing, the game starts up (if you are lucky). Normally you use cassette tapes which are more reliable to load computer programs.

[@NikM-sincostan]

Hey man!! Great videos. I was just wondering what your opinion on the Audio Technica LP-60? Im a beginner and I am thinking of getting it.

[@vinyleyezz]

+Nik M Get it! It's a great starter turntable! It also WONT damage your records like a Crosley would.

[@cassandra1819]

I have a Sundays flexidisc which was used to promote their (then) upcoming debut album. It came in an issue of Rough Trade's The Catalogue magazine from 1989. As of yet, it's the only flexi I have and I've never played it as it's still attached to the magazine and I have the song on LP anyway.

[@hervethervet1117]

Yes boy ! i recognise the" Guitar Player" flexi disc ! That support was employed for promotion in some magasine and a lot for "Guitar method " and all kind of instruments and educationnal support ! In the sixties in france it was exist a record in card on washing powder cardbox than you cut-out when the carbox was empty ! ; )

[@writerpatrick]

Flexidisks were popular for advertising and were often available for free in magazines. I know we had one or two that were samplers for Time Life records. We also had a Mr. Bill (from SNL) flexidisk. They were mainly used for promotional purposes so the quality wasn't a concern.

[@brandxreviews]

I specifically remember owning some of these back in the nineties. You used to it get them free with certain music magazines back in the day . ideal to give away free with a magazine if you think about it because I imagine they are very cheap to produce and of course will not make a bundle of magazines a lot heavier by including them as free enclosures

[@vinyleyezz]

+Brand X Reviews very true!

[@TheBudgie29]

Hi Jarrett. I have loads of these. You should look for the Gold Colored ones as You can use these to good effect. Some 45 singles sometimes have a Double label. You can carefully peel off this Label. Then stick It to the center of the Gold disc. Then get a Engraved label made with (Whatever the label Is) Presented to Jarrett New. Put It In a Picture Frame and hang It on Your Wall Behind the Record Deck. Nice. Great Vids keep them coming maybe one on Your new Gold Disc. Lol.

[@TheKpokodul]

Fun fact - because of censorship in USSR, it was pretty hard to find almost any official popular western music on vinil, and it was almost impossible to pirate or make an underground copy - just because it was pretty hard to obtain blank vinyl or shellac blancs eather. So... russians find a way. They've made makeshift flexi discs out of x-ray prints, and they was called "music on bones\skulls ibs". The quality wasnt perfect at all, but sometimes it was the only way to listen Beatles, if you was from some little russian town.

[@ToaGatanuva]

I have one flexi disc. It's a promo disc promoting some kind of dance band music. It has a golden finish as well

[@stephenjerome4135]

I can remember those flexi discs from when I was growing up through the 80's. There were many of them around and they would often come attached to things like music magazines. I think they were mainly designed to promote an artist's music, like a new album maybe, and would contain little snippets of songs. Also some companies such as Reader's Digest made lots of big box set compilations of music and they would often issue snippets of songs from these compilations on a flexi disc. They were just little advertising items really. But I do know some Beatles flexi discs also exist. They were issued in the 60's to members of their fan club every Christmas from about 1963-1969, but these are extremely rare and are very hard to find.

[@Povilaz]

i have one. it is a blue color. it has some heavy metal recorded. btw do people still make vinyls?

[@tappwater9228]

yes they still make them

[@donkeypoo99]

I have a few Flexi discs. Missed and Dreamcatcher by Title Fight, three Flexi discs that were thrown in with 12” records that I bought, and a commercial for Edinboro University that i assume was sent to my dad in the mail in the mid 80’s

[@erickerives9310]

That looks like it would be dificult to keep in a good condition over time. Was there any type of case of something that came with it to protect it?

[@vinyleyezz]

+Erick Erives The only thing they came with with just a thin cardboard backing and an outer sleeve. A lot of these have been bent over the years.

[@gregorykrzyzanski784]

I had one when I was a child : there was no music on it but spoken words,cartoon audio or something like that ,I don't remember what it was (it was 35 years ago).

[@vinyleyezz]

+gregory krzyzanski Oh wow that's cool! A lot of them were used for spoken word recordings

[@RamblingsOn]

I'm only 3`1 (Born in 1984) and I remember these things for me reason....My uncle that I lived with had a crap ton of records...I remember clear/colored ones, all sizes and shapes....Really want to hear the transcription disc you have...

[@pancudowny]

I had one from The Monsters cereal collections (Boo-Berry, Count Choc-ula, Franken-berry) when I was young... There were a total of four, IIRC. Also had Alfred E. Neuman's face, from MAD Magazine. Those would be really collectible now!

[@Will.the.book.dragon]

I found a 33 1/3 rpm paper record by Colleen Applegate (Shauna Grant), Copyright Hustler Magazine/American Audiographics, 1987. Tonight going through a box of records that was given to me. Honestly thought it was just a decorative art cover till i saw the grooves. I have no idea how to store it or anything. I was going to send you a message on your FB page but saw this video.

[@fostej99]

That's so cool! I'd never heard of them until now but I'd like to try and get a few now despite the sound quality obviously not being as good, great video as always :D

[@vinyleyezz]

+fostej99 They're pretty neat! Ask your local record shop if they have them the next time you visit! Thanks for watching! More great stuff on the way!

[@porko882]

I had a red one that came with a book, I got it from my dentist as a kid.

[@johngould1540]

Have been a Guitar Player subscriber since almost since the beginning of the magazine started. Have all the flexidisc put out by them. Also the folk music publication, Sing Out, had flexidisc for a little while in the 60's

[@conflictmagazine]

My favorite Mission of Burma recording of 'This Is Not A Photograph' is on a flexi...lots of these guys were made once upon a time. If you like picking up unique items these are great. Generally best to record them onto another medium and treat the flexi like it's an acetate i.e. limited number of plays until it's gone.

[@AntonDoesMusic]

I just found "Fair Warning" by Van Halen at my local antique shop for $3, and I found one of these flexis tucked in it. One side has a song I've never heard, but the other side is "Cliffs of Dover" by Eric Johnson. I was STOKED.

[@keithparkhill8321]

These use to come on boxes of cereal . If you come across some of these in good shape they are highly collectable . My favorite was Sugar Sugar by the Archies. Came on the back of Frosted Flakes.

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+keith “yoro 70” parkhill nice!