Beck’s all about the YouTube, the remixes, and the 1s and 0s; so we got together with him to offer a technologically friendly giveaway for fans of his music and fans of convenient data transfer. There’s a few prizes, but one winner takes all.
First up is an autographed Beck poster; that’s for your wall. And while you’re hanging that poster, you can listen to the free copy of The Information you’ll receive. Not bad. But that’s no ordinary copy of The Information, so it doesn’t matter if you already own one. Because no matter how you did at designing your sticker cover, Beck probably did better — and the copy you’ll get will have a booklet signed and designed by Mr. Hansen.
While we don’t have an MP3 player for you to digitize and transport your Beck tunes, we do have the next best thing. This Mimoco Glow Ghost 2GB flash drive was produced in a limited run for Comic Con and are now unavailable — except to you, for you and your Beck storage purposes.
More info on them here. They glow, and they’re more fun to look at than a yousendit file.
So if you could use a little more Beck (again, signed poster, copy of The Information with Beck signed and designed booklet) and a little more portable storage space in your life, post a comment about how you plan to apportion the 2GB of memory on your Glow Ghost. We’ll pick the winner at random on Tuesday 11/21 at 6PM EST. Until then, you’re stuck with your floppy disks.
UPDATE: We’ve just received word that the Glow Ghost is one of TWO that were ever produced. ‘Cause it ain’t 2GB, it’s 4GB. That means you can transfer even more porn.
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First i would use it as an emblem of how lucky i am.
Then i would use it to show how i’m connected with beck and shove it down people’s throats.
Then i would use it as a good luck charm to store all my english papers in them so i can stop making c’s and start making a’s.
I’d take the whole stash over to my mother-in-law’s, let her eyes soak it in real good just to show her how much of a loser I’m not.
Probably:
- an episode of “Spaced”
- an episode of “Extras”
- two captain beefheart albums
- a naked picture of Jessica Biel [if there is such a thing out there in the ether]
Probably:
- an episode of “Spaced”
- an episode of “Extras”
- two captain beefheart albums
- a naked picture of Jessica Biel [if there is such a thing out there in the ether]
i would replace the iPod shuffle that I currently use as a flash drive, because I got it free with a purchase using company money, and I did not report it to my boss, so I must use it in secret when I transfer files from work to home. I cannot continue to live with this hideous lie.
how would i use this nifty little flash drive? to save my 100′s of mp3 files from my slowly dying, bloated, fat, wheezing, suffering, lying on its death bed, full of pills desktop. He’s just about gone, and he’s gonna take my music with ‘em. don’t let it happen!!!!
(and the Beck stuff is pretty sweet, too.)
I would use it to transport massive amounts of biochemical research data and 3D protein models between my lab at school to my desktop at home. This would free up some space on my already-full 80GB iPod which I’ve been using to schlep around this data in disk mode. Seriously, help me out, I’m poor, I like music, and I want to cure Crohn’s Disease. Go Beck!
Load it with Beck YouTube!! CLAP HANDS!!
i would replace the iPod shuffle that I currently use as a flash drive, because I got it free with a purchase using company money, and I did not report it to my boss, so I must use it in secret when I transfer files from work to home. I cannot continue to live with this hideous lie.
I would use it to back up my list of cds I need to buy. Fuck homework.
Wow, Stereogum. This is an unbelievable offer… PLEASE CONSIDER ME!!! I am an enormous Beck fan and have been for many years. I saw him in Jersey City, NJ and I own 8 copies of The Information (to collect all the stickers, of course). Please, please, please, Stereogum, consider my post.
I’d use the wonderful 2 gig flash drive to store documents for school & home, pictures for friends, and, mostly Beck videos and songs to let friends listen to everywhere (not take… simply listen).
Stereogum, Beck is one of my few idols.. a revolutionary, a genius in my opinion, and this would make my year… hell, possibly my decade. Stereogum, all I ask is consideration.
Load it with Beck YouTube!! CLAP HANDS!!
i would love to have that flash drive as somewhere to store my CAD renderings of floppy discs that i’m stuck with.
well since my computer is crap and my ipod actually has more memory than my laptop, i could definatly use this to help back up a few of those leaked albums (THE SHINS!)
-ben
stl_ben @ Hotmail.com
umm i’ll put all my hi-res pics of Beck on this flash drive. not really but yea…
I will rent it out to hoboes.
I would fill it with all the anti-scientology information I could find…oh, beck’s a scientologist…shit
I would use it to store the personal information of others, like, o say, Ben’s. He doesn’t seem to mind giving it out.
I’d store vast quantities of pictures of my cats.
i would never be hungry again.
I would use it to rule the world.
DIE
bold
get it?
world peace.
duh.
I’d turn it into a really cool/creepy necklace, it is most definitely a piece that needs wearing around the neck
Use it to store concert photos I take on my Rebel XT.
it’s adorable!
i’d like to use it to upload my scanned sketches and then force them on any unwitting art purveyor with a usb connection.
I would transfer all my episodes of Chip and Dale rescue rangers to it, and then stop leeching off of my neighbors internet connection and go get my own.
I’d fill it with Weeds. Then i think it’d be appropriate to hide it in a Russian Matryoshka doll.
I’d eat it.
I would keep it in the blister pack until it tripled in value then flip it on eBay. No really… I don’t know.
i’d use it to beat up the owner of geno’s that cheesesteak joint. don’t ask me how.
I would use it to transfer all the downloaded ‘sample’ tracks and all those episodes of Deadwood from work to home. And also to taunt others that have nothing nearly so cool as that. Though that doesn’t really count as a use I suppose.
episodes of Family Matters!!! ! !
i would put that snl skit “more cowbell” on it.
I’d use it to store all my episodes of “Spooks” that are clogging up my hard drive.
I will use that Glow Ghost to store the sound files that will comprise my upcoming CD, “Pseudobiography”. Truly, this will be my freshest piece yet, The Cheat.
Like you give a rat’s ‘rhoid about my craft.
DwD
I’m gonna transfer all that porn on my work computer to my home computer…hell yea!
I would turn it into a rare limited edition Pez dispenser because computer stuff is for geeks…who’s Beck?
I could partition that cute flash drive into folders with photos, mp3s, videos…the list goes on. w00t!
transfer music files from work to home and home to work. because I don’t actually have a life.
I could partition that cute flash drive into folders with photos, mp3s, videos…the list goes on. w00t!
i’ll use the storage thingamajig to store some stuff. maybe some pictures or some shit like that.
but the beck! the beck, i will listen to! and look at!
This amazing glow ghost will be used to illuminate the dark, damp dorm room that I live in, and to store music that will hopefully provide some relief from the fact that i go to an all boys boarding school in Tennessee. Finally i can store all my stereogum mp3 downloads!
This amazing glow ghost will be used to illuminate the dark, damp dorm room that I live in, and to store music that will hopefully provide some relief from the fact that i go to an all boys boarding school in Tennessee. Finally i can store all my stereogum mp3 downloads!
This amazing glow ghost will be used to illuminate the dark, damp dorm room that I live in, and to store music that will hopefully provide some relief from the fact that i go to an all boys boarding school in Tennessee. Finally i can store all my stereogum mp3 downloads!
4GB FTW.
Pictures. Music. Yes.
I could partition that cute flash drive into folders with photos, mp3s, videos…the list goes on. w00t!
fill it with all of beck’s videos ever!
fill it with all of beck’s videos ever!
today, I lost the cap to my pathetic 512MB flash drive.
so, I would use a new one to traffic media without worrying about getting dirt/dust/moisture in my USB ports.
unhh,
cody drago
I would use it to traffic media.
oh, and i would use it to replace my pathetic 512MB flash drive, which i lost the cap to [yesterday].
unhh,
cody drago
It’d mostly be filled with music. But the the most important function of it would be as a flashlight.
I’d store text files full of stereogum news…years worth, with the 4 gigs
it will solely house the legendary ontd! post about britney’s divorce.
I’d store text files full of stereogum news…years worth, with the 4 gigs
I will make Ghost my nitelight and it will be a little birdhouse in my soul.
the great american novel!
it will solely house the legendary ontd! post about britney’s divorce.
i will store microsoft word files, spreadsheets, and powerpoint presentations for school!
I will make Ghost my nitelight and it will be a little birdhouse in my soul.
I’d use it to transfer my Dolly Parton and Richard Cheese traX over to my 360. You know, when I’m not watching Lost.
I would use it to store pre-Iraqi War CIA documents which claim the existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction, pitchfork’s archives from the last 2 years, illegally downloaded music from from K-Fed, Brooke Hogan, Aaron Carter, 50 Cent, G-Unit, Good Charlotte, and P Diddy. In addition I would also store episodes of such shows as “The War at Home, Joey, Reunion, Dancing with the Stars (those featuring Tucker Carlson).” I would send it to Saddam Hussein and tell him that this the high quality stuff he’s been missing and that he has to see before he his hanged.
26% Cyanide Breath Mints
15% Milk & Honey
14% Peaches & Cream
11% Mixed Bizness
10% Burnt Orange Peels
7% Nicotine and Gravy
6% Jagermeister Pie
5% Mountain Dew Rock
4% Rollins Power Sauce
2% Satan’s Tacos
1% Bottles of Blues
Nelson Mandela
A fourth would be used for world peace. A third would go to reading the Bible and puppies. 2/15ths would like Mars bars more than Snickers, but only if they come from England. The rest of the space is the Golden Ratio and therefore would not be touched.
I plan on taking The Information, ripping it, and remixing it 100s of times, because it’s okay with Beck (it is, right?). I would then store these remixes on the glow ghost thingy and force people to listen to these remixes, especially Beck – because he is for the people.
It would just end up in my drawer.
I’ll store canned peaches recipes!
Maybe a picture or two if there’s any space left….
i’d use it to make my desk look pretty. and possibly for file storage
i would lock it up in a glass case and only speak in whispers when near it. i would shine a spotlight on it so any visitors could marvel at its beauty. and occasionally i would use the cap as a finger puppet.
I plan to load music onto the flash drive, then unload it, then load some more, unload it again, and just keep going on and on with this aural recycling system until I have listened to every single song ever copied from CD, LP, or cassette onto a computer hard drive. I’ll see you in, oh, about 2000 years.
i would use the glow ghost to store every beck song ever…he’s probably put out like 4 gigs worth including his random independent stuff
i plan to load third world orphans on to it and then copy them to my hard drive.
Porn – looks like a dildo!!
I would sneak into RNC HQ and download their incriminating voter intimidation files. Except it’s a little late maybe.
First the robot ghost would take on a character, then a back story. This story would be told in song, which would be recorded and stored on itself. Then the glowing devil would laugh in the face of oral tradition forever.
I’d make it chase my Pac-Man flash drive around.
I’ll fill it up with Google hits on Falun Gong then put it up my ass and smuggle the info into China.
Mine would hold Beck (duh), and maybe some pictures of sleeping kitties. Aw.
I Would use it…
no wait i would not use it.
i would probably hang it on my baby sisters wall so when the light goes out she see’s a ghost, than i offer to ‘chase the ghost away’ in exchange that i get my own room back. and she can sleep in this lousy closet!
I’d fill it with pancakes.
I would store the entire archive of Stereogum, from the beginning so I can replay the sad tale of Brit and Fed-Ex whenever I need to cry.
Sad but true.
I WOULD use it to store screenshots of every K-Fed story you’ve done, but I would need at least 10 gigs
I would tie the Beck Ghost Flash Drive to the end of a string, hide by the front door, and wait until my roommate came home from school so I could scare her with it because she is deathly afraid of ghosts. One time, she wouldn’t leave her bunk bed, even though she had to pee, in fear of a ghost waiting for her at the bottom. Poor girl.
I think her name is Debra?
Mostly I will store files.
Lots and lots of banjo music! [well...]
I would use ALL of the memory space to store pictures of single-pixel artwork, that’s right, “red”, “blue”, “green”, “Blue-Green”, etc.
I would use it to put remixes on my Tandy TRS-80. Wait, it doesn’t have speakers or a USB port? Guess I’ll cry instead.
I’d do what every red-blooded American would do….Fill it up w/gay porn and show tunes! Happy Election Day!
I’d use my glow ghost to safely store all of my favourite downloaded music, legally downloaded, that is
, and to keep all the info of the people I stalk on facebook for safekeeping. (joking).
Being the geek I am, I would most likely put a portable version of [insert OS of choice here] along with a bunch of portable software so I can commandeer any computer I come across. Oh and I’d put a bunch of music on it too I guess.
I would use it to transfer music from my pc to my shiny macbook pro – as well as use it to be able to get info off of my old beat ass laptop and use it at work – and then listen to the tunes I took off the pc on that old beat ass laptop – while at work. The i’d actually be able to listen to all the music I get from stereogum!
i edit movies and i would like to move things with a fancy schmancy flash drive…
I’d use it to store my OT Level 3 Scientology texts.
i would fill it with my ultimately undying love for all things beck, of course. that, and my cat penuin would probably try to defeat it in a night battle.
Do you think a guy who won a 4gig glow ghost would talk to you? C’MON!
transfer stuff for classes. yeah, exciting. and music!
me gusta beck!!
i like the look of it, a lot, so i’d use it to store digital pictures. i already double backup and update my music files often, cause i’m kind of obsessive about protecting them, if not i’d answer music! but i think that answer’s already been taken anyways.
oh, and i really mean it when i say i LOVE the look of the ghost, so i would play with it like a toy figure. not in the ‘i would love it and pet it and call it george’ sorta way, except, well, maybe, kinda, actually yeah. did i mention i like the look? and how that totally matches with keeping digital images on it? yeah? ok.
ps. i really dig the look of the ghost.
Well, I really kinda need a place to back up all my pictures and videos from shows. Besides, any ghost who’s a friend of Beck is most certainly a friend of mine…..even if he apparently eats blood.