2. Those who watched the previous question's accompanying video could see that, for so small a format, a Tiny Vinyl record is a bit much. A gatefold sleeve (one that opens to two panels) and an inner sleeve, house a fancy schmancy colored vinyl disc. One disc containing up to eight minutes of sound will set a music lover back $14.99 US before appliable tax and shipping. Even if you R E A L L Y like a musical act who has a couple of their tunes pressed in this format, is that price you'd pay for this kind of record?
3. Tiny Vinyl's developers admit to the format being at least as much, if not more, about the records being collectibles over being items that sensible music lovers are gong to want to play instead of or in addition to larger vinyl formats offering a more fulsome listening experience. Have you eve4r purchased anything by a favorite artist of yours--musical or otherwise--that offered no real practical value, anything you wanted to own just to say you have i?
4. Believe it or not, there have been smaller playable records, but never mind those for now. My recent discovery of Tiny Vinyl brought to my mind Chu Bops, the little record-looking discs of bubblegum sold in duplicates of album sleeves in the early 1980's. Do you remember Chu-Bops?
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