I dunno about the status of Stax, but Nikon is most likely proper fucked. Even champion fruit loop Ken Rockwell noticed (scroll down for relevant crackpottedness.) Nikon is perpetually back-ordered on most of their premium products in the best of circumstances. I can only imagine how bad the situation will be now.
Disclaimer: Yes, the availability of high faltuin' camera equipment over here is completely trivial compared to the devastation in Japan.
I just coughed up $43 for this CD single.
Out of my mind? Probably. I now have a bunch of the earliest tracks by The Mackenzie (an artist I've ) in clean digital form. The 24/96 vinyl rips I have sound nice enough but I'm never overly trusting of other people's attempts and A/D conversion. I previously paid $SHIT_TON for this comp, but I was disappointed by the fact that many of the tracks a truncated 7" mixes. "Freak Out" suffers especially badly. The above CD single has none of these problems.
Eeenteresting. I saw the Spanish signs, but had no idea what I was looking at. The robot is Mazinger (Tranzor) Z.
Edit: This song and several others are available in FLAC, for free, on the artist's website. Unfortunately, said site is down at the moment. Hopefully it will be up soon.
My radio show is on the air RITE NAO: 89.3FM (though not near any HCers) / http://testtone.net / http://wamh.amherst.edu/
I won't be on the air next week due to AmhCol being on spring break.