If the tool is upon sale in Urban Outfitters, it’s a satisfactory bet which its a square of junk. The extraordinary multiple of great garments and crappy newness gifts is patently aimed at mocking impulse-buyers, though a Crosley Radio Revolution is possibly a weirdest thing nonetheless.

The Revolution is a tiny, portable, battery-powered turntable. Yes, the turntable for personification records. It comes with a claim retro-styling as well as 1950s colorways, though just who will buy it? At $180, it is as well most to buy as a fun gift for a crony who maybe still has a integrate of LPs upon a shelves. But it’s doubtlessly tinny built-in stereo orator and lightweight tonearm aren’t starting to do it for the real vinyl addict: if you’re still shopping grooved disks afterwards you’re substantially an audiophile or luddite. Either approach a Revolution is not for you.

The Revolution does at slightest come with the USB-cable as well as software for ripping annals to a computer. I suppose scouring rare-record dealers’ stores with a single of these as well as the netbook or even iPad and sensitively duplicating tunes in a listening booths.

Even if you do wish this, you should avoid Urban Outfitters anyway. They competence have an disdainful on those pale colors, though they also have an exclusive upon that price. Buy upon the web or trip over to JC Penny as well as you can have a black a single for $30 reduction, during $150. Coming “soon”.

Revolution product page [Crosley. Thanks, Jenny!]