Why worship the Fisher Price Record Player?
Well, there’s kind of a long story behind it, but I found myself buying one for someone who knew Nick had them and thought they were highly cool and kept going on and on about how he had to have one, so I started to look for one last September, thinking it would make a hell of a cool Christmas present for him. On my very first day looking, I wandered into the local Goodwill and perused the shelves for about 45 minutes. I didn’t see anything that looked remotely like a Fisher Price Record Player, although I found a Fisher Price Stereo System and a Fisher Price Camera. (Pretty amazing what Fisher Price has come up with – you may have heard about the obsession with PXL-2000’s – they’re going for about $500 in good working condition now, which isn’t bad for a toy video camera that records on audio tapes.) Just as I was about to give up, I took one last stroll down the kitchenwares aisle, and noticed a cardboard box that was shoved toward the back. I pulled it out, and there it was. My Very
