You may be thinking that vinyl is a dead and buried format that no one even plays anymore, but if you’d been paying attention then you’d know that vinyl is actually experiencing a totally unexpected resurgence, most recently culminating in sales that exceeded one million units during 2014.
In fact, it seems everyone’s jumping on the vinyl bandwagon, with companies looking to outdo each other to create increasingly complex, obscure, and outright phantasmagorical record-playing contraptions, and as lovers of everything that has to do with music and weirdness, we’ve compiled a few of them here.
We’ve arranged a quick countdown of some of the strangest and mind-blowing vinyl turntables, running the gamut of ridiculous, colossal monstrosities that cost as much as a house, to micro-players that have the cartridge and stylus housed inside of a children’s toy.
