By MeSoHordey
Tue Apr 10, 2012 4:38 am
Ill-Green wrote:AntonPD wrote:Ill-Green wrote:Man, when I filed my claim against the Beat Kangz, the process took 3 days and the money appeared back on the next statement. Customer always win.
YOU ordered a beat thang??
Yep, back in 2009 when it looked hot on paper and when it was about to be released (which it never did). I was promised a custom grill that would look like fangs and a paint job done in green with alligators swimming around all for $999. It was suppose to be the sampler I was gonna use for my Swamp Water Plague album but after the release date passed and some verbal insults from Aja, I demanded my refund.
There is one on display at my local best buy. the thing is weird. Built like a tank in some respects, but with cheap plastic dials on the sides. I've menu hopped a bit and some of it seems really intuitive and other stuff just doesn't feel right. I kinda wish they hadn't been such dicks and released a little more broadly. It looks like it could have been a fun machine.
Sometimes I still laugh out loud about the beat kangz and that time some English dude hacked the Akai marketing website and stole a bunch of pictures of the Ren before it was released.
The custom work sounds cool and would be interesting to see, but how the 
