DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist - The Hard Sell Juke-Bot Vinyl Figure

I have been waiting for this designer vinyl figure to hit the web for what feels like forever. Based on The Hard Sell concert poster to DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist’s June 2007 show and the album cover to their subsequent CD The Hard Sell (Encore), the limited edition The Hard Sell Juke-Bot is an excellent addition to the world of music themed vinyl.


The figure has been available at select shows on DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist’s 2008 The Hard Sell tour and now the highly sought after designer vinyl figure is finally going on sale to the masses tonight at DJ Shadow’s Online Store. Technically they go on sale tomorrow, at 12:01 AM PST on Tuesday July 15th.


The Hard Sell Juke-Bot is stands 6.5 inches tall and has bendable arms and legs. Limited to 500 pieces and with a price of only $99.00, this figure will not be available online for long. 50 select Juke-Bot’s will be on sale at San Diego Comic Con 2008 starting on Thursday, July 24th at 1 pm at the DKE booth (booth #4732). This is to coincide with a very special SDCC signing by DJ Shadow at the DKE booth at 2 pm that Thursday.

Conan Teaser Movie Poster

What is it with Hollywood and remaking or “re-imagining” old movies and television shows!?! You’d think that there were no creative writers left in this world. For every successful The Office or The Departed there are a million bombs like Coupling, Bionic Women, Bewitched and The Stepford Wives. And now here we go with Conan.


I would much rather have a faithful squeal 20 years later, like with recent movies Rocky, Rambo and Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull, than a remake any day. Heck I’m even ok with these new franchises that are prequels and start before the original movies, like with recent films Batman Begins and the latest James Bond flick, Casino Royale.

But what I can’t stand is scrapping everything that came before, especially with a franchise that was successful and entertaining. Couldn’t they have just waited for the Governator to leave office and make the long gestating King Conan film? Instead, we now get a new version of Conan, which could never be better than the original films but is supposed to be more faithful to the original books by Robert E. Howard. (link) That must be exactly what audiences everywhere have been clamoring for, right ?