Arts & Entertainment
Vinyl lovers resurrecting resale demand
By Carter Van Pelt
Staff Repoiter
“You Only Live Twice,” one of
Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels,
could become the motto for the resur
rection of what seemed to be the
death of the record.
The market demand for records is
being Filled by resale of records dumped
by those making the move to compact
disc. The trend is evidenced in Lin
coln by the ever-growing stock of
used records found at Twisters, Pick
les and Trade-A-Tape and by the
opening of Backtrack Records, Lin
coln’s First full-scale vintage record
store.
Backtrack owner Jeff Loos says
used sales are increasing because vinyl
has been forced from the market
place.
“It’s too bad they’re taking vinyl
off the market, because vinyl on a
good turntable sounds really good if
the record has been well taken care
of,” Loos said.
According to Phil Glenn, lead
person at Twisters, 25 percent of its
business comes from used sales. The
success of Backtrack Records, which
Loos has operated since 1988, also is
evidence of the used craze. ]
Loos said record distributors have
told him that after June, special or
ders will be stopped and rhat new
vinyl will be “essentially a tnemoty.”
He said some smaller labels might
continue to press vinyl, but “it looks
pretty bleak to be able to pick up new
vinyl on a regular basis.”
The only hope will remain over
seas. According to Mike Bullerman,
assistant manager at Pickles Records
and Tapes, Pickles has stopped all
domestic orders but there are no
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immediate plans to withdraw vinyl
from the market in Europe.
Loos says that the market is in “a
big transition period.”
“You’ve got your people out there
who have vinyl and want to go to CD,
and then there are those want to buy
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vinyl while they still can,” Loos said.
For many music buyers, an invest
ment in records is too great to justify
starting a compact disc collection.
Replacing their records would be cost
prohibitive, even if all their vinyl
were available on CD.
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It’s too bad they’re
taking vinyl off the
market, because vinyl
on a good turntable
sounds really good if
the record has been
well taken care of.
Loos
record store owner
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Loos said many recordings will
never go to CD because of limited
appeal. Also, many collectors find an
irresistible appeal in owning an origi
nal pressing of a old record. That kind
of nostalgia can’t be duplicated by
owning a CD reissue.
Loos said he believes that a good
piece of vinyl sounds as good as a
compact disc.
“I get people in here all the time
who say they’re going to stay with
vinyl as long as possible,” Loos said.
Loos said he believes that used
record stores have a promising future
if they keep with the times. This will
involve carrying used CDs and get
ting into the DAT (Digital Audio Tape)
market if that becomes realized, he
said.
If the demand continues for used
vinyl, Loos said that stores selling
used-records can fill the need.
“There’s a lot of vinyl out there
that we can pass around,” he said.
“I’m still passing around things (rec
ords) from the ’60s that haven’t been
opened. It w ill be harder to find things
in really good condition, but it will
always be possible if you look.”
Despite a few unintentional laughs,
‘Warlock’ loses magic to idiotic plot
By Jim Hanna
Senior Reporter
The movie poster for “Warlock”
has an ominous phrase intended to
scare audiences into the theater.
“Satan also has one son.”
After seeing the movie, this
sentence is bound to make most
viewers jump with glee instead of
fright. With only one son, we can
rest assured there will be no sequel.
“Warlock” is a bad enough movie
that there probably won’t be a sequel
anyway.
The warlock (Julian Sands) is a
17th-century Bostonian bad guy
who somehow blasts his way through
time and lands in present-day Los
Angeles.
In hot pursuit through the walls
of time is a witch hunter named
Redfeme (Richard E. Grant) who
wants to catch the warlock before
he can wreak his devilish havoc in
1991. The warlock can time travel
because his dad is Beelzebub, but
we never do learn how the mortal
Redfeme pulls this dimensional
switchcroo.
But in a movie of countless
unexplained happenings, this over
sight soon is lost. The warlock
stumbles into the apartment of our
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Hanna the heckler —
he’s back for an attack
The other day, somebody actually
had the nerve to say that I was too
nice. My friend, I’ll call him Ken,
said that I used to be more vicious in
my columns.
“Jim,” he protested. “Your col
umns used to be nasty. You used to
take on the big names at ihe univer
sity and you let them have it. Lately,
you’re too nice. You don’t take spe
cific digs at anybody. Did some thugs
from the administration come down
and rough you up? What gives?”
I was, as you can well imagine,
hurt. I took it as achallenge. I quickly
ran to my computer terminal and
wickedly started to attack every pillar
of authority on this campus with lies,
half-truths and mudslinging.
Jim
Hanna
Here are the results — and they
aren’t pretty.
Martin Massengale is a no-good,
dirty, rotten, puppy-killing, Iraqi
supporting, blood-drinking, smelly,
back-stabbing, devil-worshipping,
dress-wearing, foreign-car driving,
two-timing, lying, urine-gargling, two
faced, overbearing, short-sighted, four
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I M( )RRISSKV “KILL l 'NT r
Courtesy of Sire
No wallowing
Morrissey mixes dry humor,
Smiths’ sound on ‘Kill Uncle’
By Kristie Coda
Staff Reporter
In “Kill Uncle,” his second solo
album, Morrissey creates a musically
colorful collage of sound and image
and deals with a number of subjects
ranging from the serious to the silly.
Although the lyrics on this album
aren’t particularly profound, there is
a dry humor in their simplicity. What
is notable, however, arc Morrissey’s
unique vocals and the music itself.
Alternating between slower and
more upbeat rhythms, Morrissey
provides a nice mix, not drown I ng his
listeners in melancholy wallowing.
With his inimitable wit, Morrissey
writes about other men’s girlfriends
in “King Leer” and “Driving Your
Girlfriend Home,” casting himself as
the unnoticed hero to women in prob
lematic relationships.
Morrissey
“Kill Uncle”
Sire Records
Rating: 4
Ratings are 1 (bad) to 5 (excellent).
“Your boyfriend, he/displays to
mc/morc than just a hint of cruelty,”
he offers in “King Leer.” “I try to
surprise you/1 crept up behind you/
with a homeless chihuahua.”
Morrissey also deals with the
meaning of life in “Sing Your Life.”
“Your pointless life will end/but
before you go/can you look at the
truth?/You have a lovely singing
voice.” This emerges as a ray of hope
in an otherwise hopeless existence.
The afterlife also makes an ap
pearance with the cut “There’s a Place
in Hell For Me and My Friends.” And
“Our Frank” displays more of this
humor with its rather vivid refrain:
“Give us a drink/and make itquick/or
else I’m gonna be sick/sick all over/
your frankly vulgar/rcd pullovcr/now
see how the colours blend.”
' In a more serious vein, Morrissey
deals with racism and the impending
end of the Morrissey name in “Asian
Rut” and “(I’m) The End of the Family
Line.”
The music is rich and multilay
ered, and in many cases carousellike,
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