[CONTEST] Win a pair of Skull Headphones!

The fine folks at Clooci have kindly offered to give away a pair of their fun skull headphones to two lucky Skull-A-Day readers! 

Morbid King 

 Roco Diablo

To be entered in the drawing just leave a comment below saying what audio book you think a skull would enjoy listening to. [NOTE: If you're reading this on Facebook, be sure to leave your comment on the original Skull-A-Day.com post if you want to be actually entered in the contest]

IMPORTANT: Don't forget to include a way to contact you (either an e-mail in the post OR make sure your Blogger profile has an e-mail link for you on it).

Everyone is welcome to enter, but please note that if you're out of the US you will need to pay for shipping.

You have until just Midnight Eastern Time February 22nd to enter so don't delay!

[UPDATE: The contest is over! Thanks to everyone for participating, the winners will be announced shortly.]

And of course you don't have to wait til the end of the contest to get some nifty headphones from Clooci, you can see them all HERE!

Good luck!

p.s. A fun side note, Clooci actually used my Skullphabet #1 font in the logo for these headphones...

[CONTEST] Win a set of Ruffian Skull Earphones!

Great news, the fine folks at Subjekt have offered to give away two more sets of their awesome Ruffian Skull headphones to the fans of Skull-A-Day!


I was given a set of these and I can attest that they are quite nice. You can read my review HERE.


To be entered in a random drawing for a set, just leave a comment below saying what you would name a band that had only skeletons as members (parodies of existing bands are acceptable). [If you're reading this on Facebook, be sure to leave your comment on the actual Skull-A-Day.com post if you want to be entered in the contest]

IMPORTANT: Don't forget to include a way to contact you (either an e-mail in the post OR make sure your Blogger profile has an e-mail link for you on it).

Everyone is welcome to enter, but please note that if you're out of the US you will need to pay the $15 Fedex International Priority Shipping on them.

You have until just Midnight Eastern Time November 19th to enter so don't delay! [UPDATE] The Contest is over! Thanks to everyone who participated.

And of course you don't have to wait til the end of the contest to get your own headphones from Radius and if you use coupon code: skulladay you'll even get 20% off your order!

Plus if you join their Facebook Fan Page you'll get even more chances to win a set of these!

Good luck!

[BONUS] Ruffian Skull Headphones Review

When the nice folks at Subjekt offered to give away a set of their Ruffian Skull Headphones they also kindly sent me a set to review myself! I'm not an expert on headphones, but I do use them when I travel (which I do fairly frequently), so I was glad to be offered the opportunity...

(thanks to my intern Gina for modelling them!)

The first thing I noticed about them is that they are heavy. Not fall out of your ear heavy, but rather "this is definitely not cheaply made crap" heavy. The second thing I noticed, which explained point one, is that they're really made of metal. Yep, this is not metal-ish foil over plastic, which I have to admit is what I expected, but honest-to-goodness cast metal! Even the packaging says quality: a small velvet bag, which came with an extra set of the color-coded rubber tips for your ears (in two-sizes no less!).

Of course the only thing that really matters is how they work. The large tips fit my ear easily and comfortably on first try and they really blocked out a good deal of outside noise right away.

Listening to a variety of styles of music on my computer the sound is clean and distinct, nothing's muffled and I could hear plenty of quiet details. There's a good balance of treble and bass, with perhaps a bit more emphasis on the bass than I use on my regular speakers (which have a separate subwoofer), but I think that's not uncommon for headphones and I didn't mind. Turning the volume up to even uncomfortably loud levels didn't seem to distort the sound, though at comfortably loud levels a small amount of sound does leak out, but in most environments (or at lower levels) that would probably not be an issue.

So what's the verdict? I will definitely be using the Ruffian's as my everyday headpones from here on out! Kudos to Radius for making a product that both sounds good and looks good!

Don't forget you have just under a week to enter our contest to try to win a set of these bad boys for yourself. And of course you don't have to wait, you can always go to the Subjekt website to buy some right now.