As the crusade against music piracy has gotten more intense, music manufacturers have attempted to lure consumers into buying CDs by including addtional multimedia content on CD albums. I think it’s actually a nice idea when done properly; the gratuitous addition of a crappy video is not what I’m looking for here. I was surprised to find out that this has been done before, though, on vinyl LPs and 45s, no less!<\/p>\n
An article on kempa.com<\/i> entitled Vinyl Data<\/a> reveals several examples of vinyl with embedded games, of all things, as separate tracks or B sides. Now keep in mind that this is back in the early ‘80s, when personal computers like the Sinclair ZX Spectrum<\/a> read data over cassettes (I remember those days…), so in many cases the LP or 45 was just recorded onto a cassette which was then read into a computer. I think that it’s so cool that someone thought of this back then. Take a look at the article for more details and even some downloadable games that survived the ravages of time…<\/p>\n As the crusade against music piracy has gotten more intense, music manufacturers have attempted to lure consumers into buying CDs by including addtional multimedia content on CD albums. I think it’s actually a nice idea when done properly; the gratuitous addition of a crappy video is not what I’m looking for here. I was surprised … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-107998332069814228?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\")