Teeny Weenie

Before MP3 players, before the Walkman even, if you really wanted to get portable you had to go with one of these.

While we're down nostalgia lane, how about some vintage Devo schwag.

Both finds via the always reliable Vintage Ads.

Comments

[Chuck]

Is this where Sony got the idea for the MiniDisc?

[Brian C.]

I remember a college buddy who was into Devo showing me the ad for the E-Z listening music cassette. That was in the dorms, spring 1983 (vol. 1, I suppose). I guess both of us were too busy spending our money on cheap beer to spring for it--Could make an interesting mp3 post.

[bartleby]

We had a mighty tiny, but only the 2 discs included in the package one of which was "Turkey in the Straw." I don't remember the other song title but it sounded extraordinarily similar.

[zombot]

what the heck is wrong with that child?! looks like a mental boy in a veruca salt dress with ronald mcdonald sleeves. poor thing.
MOM: here suzie, since your mind is tiny we got you a tiny record player!
Suzie: GNYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

[JD]

I have the Devo E-Z Listening cassette somewhere. I also have the expanded CD version Ryko put out in 1987. It can't be all that hard to find now, can it? Or can it?

[Max]

Bill Mac played a bunch of these Devo songs as background on his show this past Friday.

Still have about 20 of the tiny records,but no player. :(

[Ryan]

Similar dealioes were released in Japan in 2004 (mine cost about Y3800 I think) and I remember that the record only sounded good the first time - just one play and you could see the needle ploughing through the groove, sanding all the frequencies down to dust.

http://www.chipple.net/mt/2004/03/11_000585.php

A bit more of a search reveals that the White Stripes cottoned onto the appeal, and sold them at their US shows, upping the price by about 500%:

http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/14/triple-inchophone-plays-3-inch-records-and-doles-out-street/

[Dale Hazelton]

Didn't Ohio Art bring us Spirograph, SpinArt and Etch-a-Sketch? Must have had some leftover plastic to repurpose into rekkids.

[illustrationISM]

reMEMBERS these!

ARE WE NOT MEN??!

[Krys O.]

I was in Club Devo in high school!

[Ernie (Not Bert)]

Didn't they have a record player this same size that played full sized records? Record Burger maybe? Thought I read about that somewhere once...

[Webhamster Henry]

The Mighty Tiny and other alternative sound producing devices can be found in WFMU's own Internet Museum of Flexi-Oddity Recordings, curated by "The Antique Phonograph Music Program"'s MAC.

http://www.wfmu.org/MACrec/MT.html

[jonny]

Clint... you're not THAT old. ;-)