Black Plastik Blog
Archive - February 2007

Garbage Pail Kids Trading Card Stickers

Check out our huge Garbage Pail Kids cards clearance sale! Shortly after listing them someone came along and bought 38 of them! They will go fast and cheap!

Music "Blog It" Test

[Product.eBay.com]: Failures For Gods - Immolation (CD 1999)
Format:  CD
Record Label:  Metal Blade
Artist:  Immolation
UPC:  039841419726
 
 
 
 
 
 
I just wanted to try this feature out, pretty cool! I can tell I'm going to have some fun with this.

BLACK PLASTIK: Store Clearance Sale!

Everything is on sale right now! We need to clear out our store for new product. Records are 60% off!!! Magazines 75% off!!! and some items we are FREE! The sale started this morning and several people have acted on it fast! These items are going to sell fast!!!!!

R.I.P. TV Remote Control Inventor

BOISE, Idaho - Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, has died.

Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the device that made the couch potato possible, died Thursday of heart failure at a Boise nursing home at 93, Zenith Electronics Corp. said Friday.

In his six-decade career with Zenith, Adler was a prolific inventor, earning more than 180 U.S. patents. He was best known for his 1956 Zenith Space Command remote control, which helped make TV a truly sedentary pastime.

In a May 2004 interview with The Associated Press, Adler recalled being among two dozen engineers at Zenith given the mission to find a new way for television viewers to change channels without getting out of their chairs or tripping over a cable.

But he downplayed his role when asked if he felt his invention helped raise a new generation of couch potatoes.

"People ask me all the time — 'Don't you feel guilty for it?' And I say that's ridiculous," he said. "It seems reasonable and rational to control the TV from where you normally sit and watch television."

Happy Valentines Day!

There have been many new albums listed and some Metal Blade CDs too.

R.I.P. Frankie Laine

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Frankie Laine, the big-voiced singer whose string of hits made him one of the most popular entertainers in the 1950s, died Tuesday. He was 93.

Laine died of heart failure at Mercy Hospital in San Diego, Jimmy Marino, Laine's producer of more than a dozen years, told The Associated Press.

"He was one of the greatest singers around," Marino said. "He was one of the last Italian crooners type."

With songs such as "That's My Desire,""Mule Train,""Jezebel,""I Believe," and "That Lucky Old Sun," Laine was a regular feature of the Top Ten in the years just before rock 'n' roll ushered in a new era of popular music.

Somewhat younger listeners may remember him best for singing the theme to the television show "Rawhide," which ran from 1959 to 1966, and the theme for the 1974 movie "Blazing Saddles."

He sold more than 100 million records and earned more than 20 gold records.

"He will be forever remembered for the beautiful music he brought into this world, his wit and sense of humor, along with the love he shared with so many," Laine's family said in a statement.

New Sale Feature Experiment

We decided to try out the new sale feature for stores. All of our magazines are 50% off and a few records, get them before they're gone!!! Like The Beatles Rubber Soul and the Roger Nichols Trio! 5 records sold just within minutes of us creating the sale!

Tomorrow we will be listing an extremely rare Sisters Of Mercy 7inch Limited Number of 300 pressed!

New Movie Release Spotlight:
Grudge 2 - February 6th

New this week: MegaMetal trading cards 1991 Impel

Groundhog Day & Rare Find

First of all Happy Groundhog Day! and I sure do love the movie starring Bill Murray.

Here is an interesting single I ran into today. I can't find any information on it anywhere, I checked Popsike, Gemm, Ebay and other sites and came up with nothing.

Bobby Greene: The Worst Is Yet To Come/Time 45rpm on Mar-ka Records D-201 Blue Book Music BMI Produced By Marge Kratzer

If anyone knows anything about this please comment.


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