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*TURTLE’S “78 RPM” JUKEBOX*

Turtle manages and operates the recording studio. Jim places the records in the jukebox. This is the best FREE collection of great old music from 1900-1925. Example: Billy Murray, tenor - TAKE ME TO THE CABARET Billy Murray - FIDO IS A HOT DOG NOW

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Art*o*mats are retired cigarette vending machines that have been converted to vend art. There are 76 active machines in various locations throughout the country. [ find an art*o*mat near you. ] The experience of pulling the knob alone is quite a thrill, but you also walk away with an original work of art. Ker-plunk! What an easy way to become an art collector. [ art*o*mat samples ]

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Here are some great sites to find new music, most let you download some of there singles, here you go!

• amazon.com
this may be the best music recomending sites ever, you just join and put some of your fav. bands in there recomendation service. and befor you know it theres tons of bands you may like. and you can buy there CD ussally alot cheaper here, just buy it used or new(i only buy my cds here and i havent gotten a scratched one yet)
• 15megsoffame.com
This is an online music communtiy, you join as eather a listener or artist, so you can put your music up for others to hear and rate, or you listen to new bands and rate them. theres alot of up and coming talent on here, you must check it out!
• epitonic.com
you dont need to join, and it has a great way to sample songs(@ low bit rate) and if you like a band, you can download there songs. And to the right they have other bands that are similar, and other suggestions theres alot of great indie music here.
• mp3.com
i havent used this site much, but it seems to be similar to eptonic, ecept that most of the music it has are from software like itunes, were you have to buy the song. How ever its another good site to find similar bands and such.
• musicplasma.com
the only purpose of this site is to find similar bands, with a pretty flash interface..
• music.myspace.com
Myspace is an ever expanding online communitys, they have a large music section with small bands and alot of talent. its harder to find the right band here. but once you do its well worth it.
• Search for mp3’s on google
i messed around with this, and couldnt find some mp3’s for some lesser known bands, but for the ones on teh net this is a good way to find some of there music.
• TURTLE’S “78 RPM” JUKEBOX
This is a very cool site with old songs from the 1900’s to 1920’s. i found alot of great bands here. i hope to see more cool old artist soon!
• Archive.org
Another great place to find old music/movies but it mostly has more mainstream bands, and older media. If you hunt hard enough you may just find a treasure or two.
• telltaleweekly.org
Unabridged and DRM-free MP3, AAC, and Ogg Vorbis audio books, starting at 25 cents each via PayPal or Bitpass. havent tryed there service. but it sounds like they have some intresting audio books.
• freesound.iua.upf.edu
The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative
database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released
under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples.

if you have any suggestions, please leave a comment. id love to add to the list. (leave your webpage, with the site and i’ll plug it*)

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By Ryan Block

What, listening to that those two namedropping Le Tigre and LCD Soundsystem tracks wasn’t enough of a lesson to get you started on your road to proper hipsterdom? Well, if you want to kill two birds with one stone, just hook up the Hipster iPod, a 60GB iPod that comes pre-loaded for $900 with 900 properly music-snobbish albums, including but not limited to The Shaggs, Can, T-Rex, The Modern Lovers, the No New York comp, Gang of Four, The Pop Group, Throbbing Gristle, The Homosexuals, The Fall, and many, many more. Now all you have to do live in Williamsburg and you’re totally set to kick out the mad jams. And yes, we know this is a joke. Or if not that, still highly, indubitably illegal at best.

P.S. - No comments about us living in Williamsburg, please.

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