And she'd have a heck of a time getting them pressed if she's burning 
something from a CD, illegally.  Her best bet would be to buy a Vestax's 
VRX-2000:
http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/21/vestaxs-vrx-2000-lets-you-burn-classic-wax-dude/
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] The Future of RECORD Collecting - Pressing plants


>I was buying something at Radio Shack the other day and the woman
> salesperson noticed my check said Arhoolie Records. She said she was a DJ
> and ask if I knew of any LP pressing equipment she could buy.
>
> It seems her fellow DJs wanted to press LPs of music that is only 
> available
> on CD so they could scratch it, and what ever, on their turntables. I
> started to explain the whole process of mastering, plating, etc and got 
> her
> totally confused.
>
> Tom Diamant
>
>
> on 3/7/06 9:12 PM, phillip holmes at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> True, but they don't quite sound the same.  I went into a Guitar Center 
>> to
>> buy some Stanton headshells and contact cleaner and saw those
>> CD-scratching-faux-turntables a while back.  Their response to input 
>> seems
>> slow and the sound isn't as raw.  But the main reason they exist is to 
>> make
>> available to DJs material that isn't available on LP.
>> Phillip
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "steven c" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 8:07 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] The Future of RECORD Collecting - an interesting
>> documentary
>>
>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "phillip holmes" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> I got a copy of Scratch for Christmas.  These DJs are like popular
>>>> musicologists.  They have encyclopedic knowledge of funk, kitsch, etc..
>>>> Very entertaining book.  They are "like" jazz musicians in a way. 
>>>> Maybe
>>>> they could be considered percussionists.
>>>>
>>> However, it is worth noting that there now exists software that allows
>>> one to "scratch" a CD as though it were an analog disc!
>>> Steven C. Barr
>>> (who has a number of 78's that are "pre-scratched!...)
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>