Mix-CD-of-the-month-club features ripped music from thrifted Singapore vinyl

Etsy seller hamsterguppies has a "Kitschy Record of The Month Club" featuring mixed CDs of tracks ripped from vinyl thrifted in Singapore. Given hamsterguppies' awesome collection of thriftjunk for sale, I'm betting these kick ass.

Can't get enough kitsch music in your life? Love receiving mix cds? Sign up to be a member of this elite squad, and you'll receive a CDR of kitschy music (ripped straight from vinyls!) in the mail every month! From girl pop to Bollywood, instrumental to really-bad cover versions, there's no telling what you'll find. Each CDR will consist of songs from a variety of vinyls, so you'll get minimum of 10 songs per CDR. This is a year's subscription, so you'll get 12 kitschy music CDRs in total!

Kitschy Record of The Month Club

[#1 posted by kmoser, September 3, 2009 11:10 PM]

Since when is it cool to copy somebody else's work and resell it (not to mention infringe copyright)? There's not even any remix/mashup happening here to even begin to justify it.

[#2 posted by nosehat, September 3, 2009 11:19 PM]

If they put this together as a monthly blog post somewhere, showcasing mp3s of eclectic world music, I'd be all for it.

I agree with #1 kmoser. Selling this as CDRs is way sketchy. It's not any different from the guy selling CD-Rs and DVD-Rs at your local flea market. It's uncreative, illegal bottom feeding.

[#3 posted by caipirina, September 3, 2009 11:39 PM]

i think selecting and creating nice covers does have a some value ... but i'd prefer a free online version .. and then I could select if I want to have the actual CD ...

[#4 posted by Anonymous, September 3, 2009 11:53 PM]

http://www.comfortstand.com and http://www.wfmu.org/365/ have tons of kitschy music, for free.

[#5 posted by nosehat, September 4, 2009 12:27 AM]

I heartily second the wfmu suggestion! I can also recommend their Beware of the Blog blog for more free outlandish audio curiosities.

Thanks for the comfortstand link! I hadn't come across that before.

[#6 posted by BDiamond, September 4, 2009 12:58 AM]

"Thrifted," Cory? Really?

[#7 posted by dculberson, September 4, 2009 6:18 AM]

Did you guys miss the part where it's $12 for 12 CDs? That's barely enough to cover materials.

[#8 posted by dculberson, September 4, 2009 6:18 AM]

(Oh, and that's 12 CDs sent one at a time over the course of a year. Not 12 sent in one box.)

[#9 posted by Anonymous, September 4, 2009 6:39 AM]

actually with shipping costs et all I don't think they are making any money at all on this

[#10 posted by redstarr, September 4, 2009 9:35 AM]

I'm with Nosehat.
This is cool and I'd like to hear it, but I don't see how it's possibly not infringement. Sounds like the albums were commercially produced albums too new to be in the realm of public domain yet and doesn't sound like the guy selling these bothered to get permission from the original artists. He's not remixing them or making them into some sort of new work or artistic statement. Sounds like he's just buying old albums, burning them, and selling them. That's just plain old piracy.

[#11 posted by Anonymous, September 4, 2009 12:44 PM]

Agreed, this isn't even fair use. Kitsch value, out-of-printness, and the profit margin are irrelevant. Nose hat got it right on the...er, nose.