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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! Scott Tepperman Explores Modern Day Video Stores with His Documentary MAGNETIC HIGHWAY! PLUS! Details on the Limited VHS Release!

You know us here in Lunchmeat Land to be perpetual proponents of that vintage video rental experience. And though the forums for those encounters are now lesser in number, the rental destinations that are endeavoring to thrive in 2017 are keeping that anti-streaming dream alive. They foster the notion that there are still individuals out there that believe in that in-person interaction and family-like atmosphere that stitch together the essence of a brick and mortar video store. Scott Tepperman is an old school VHS collector and avid filmmaker that wanted to explore this contemporary video store culture, and has created...

Radical Rewind-Inclined Stuff Alert: The BEACH BABE VHS Enamel Pin from Afterschool Spectral!

The VHSummer is in full effect, Tapeheads, and the too groovy 80s-lovin’ crew over at Afterschool Spectral is ready to help you ring it in rewind-right with their brand new BEACH BABE VHS pin! The L.A.-based outfit recently released this analog-driven enamel creation with “bright pastels, big sunglasses, and a beckoning blonde who just wants to party” translated into the shape of a tape as a “tribute to those wild teen sex comedy tapes of the '80s/'90s that used to rule the video store.” You know we can dig it. Lookin' GOOD. Get a more detailed look, and VHSnatch...

VHS Collecting in 2017: The Perks of Online Tape Trading and The Thrill of Hunting the Rewind Wild!

I had originally written this piece on July 24th, 2016 on a bus ride up to Horror Boobs Headquarters in New York, subsequently submitting it to the first issue of an indie VHS-centric zine which unfortunately never made it to publication. This piece has stayed in the back of my mind since last year, and after re-reading it the other day and finding it to still carry relevance in the culture, I thought to publish here in Lunchmeat Land as a throwback. Here’s that piece in its entirety, with only a couple minor tweaks… Let's get back to July 2016,...

Houston, TX Tapehead Jason Champion Creates CHAMPION VIDEO: a Functional and Fantastic Video Rental Store in His Own Home!

Contrary to common belief, the video store isn't quite dead. And if you're regularly tuned in to Lunchmeat Land, you'll know this to be VHSolid fact. But if not, we welcome you to our VHS-obsessed domain with a few choice examples to support our notion: The classic chain of Family Video is still alive and finding ways to thrive out in the mid-west, Scarecrow Video has become a marvelous mecca of movies, indie start-up Old Skool Video is defying the odds in Nebraska and a hardy army of video stores like Viva Video in Ardmore, PA, Visart Video in Charlotte,...

Check Out This Radical Shot on Video Tour of VHS Rental Store VALHALLA VIDEO in Rochester, MN Circa 1991, Tapeheads!

The importance for historical documentation of that inimitably fun and interactive atmosphere of vintage video rental stores cannot be overstated, Tapeheads. We recently featured the following video from Growing Up 80s and 90s on some Lunchmeat VHSocial media, but we thought it proper to stick it right here on the blog so more Lunchmeat Land regulars can take a peek through this absolutely radical video window that features the tape-lined guts of a classic small town video store in Rochester, MN called Valhalla Video, circa 1991. The video, which was shot on VHS (most righteous!), offers an informative look...

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW! Scott Tepperman Explores Modern Day Video Stores with His Documentary MAGNETIC HIGHWAY! PLUS! Details on the Limited VHS Release!

Radical Rewind-Inclined Stuff Alert: The BEACH BABE VHS Enamel Pin from Afterschool Spectral!

VHS Collecting in 2017: The Perks of Online Tape Trading and The Thrill of Hunting the Rewind Wild!

Houston, TX Tapehead Jason Champion Creates CHAMPION VIDEO: a Functional and Fantastic Video Rental Store in His Own Home!

Check Out This Radical Shot on Video Tour of VHS Rental Store VALHALLA VIDEO in Rochester, MN Circa 1991, Tapeheads!

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