Sterolizer delivers music in a form that Jon Bon Jovi would approve of.

Jon Bon Jovi, the hair-metal legend, has been whining about digital music. Speaking to London’s Sunday Times, he said:

Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album; and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it.

Well, Mr. Bon Jovi, you might like to check out the Stereolizer, which turns your iPad into a 1980s stereo, complete with twitching VU-needles, a big volume knob and a tape deck, so you can pirate your music the old-fashioned way.

Stereolizer tunes into internet radio stations searchable by name or country. You can also spin the dial to find radio streams, and you get authentic-sounding fake radio interference, just as you would with a real radio.

Press Record on the tape deck to capture audio for later, and then write on the tape to remember what you recorded (the handwriting-like labels are filled for you with the station name and date). You can also reorder the tracks, just like making a mix tape.

There are some redundant controls: The bass and treble controls do nothing, and trying to stick a pair of headphones into the on-screen jack is a recipe for disaster.

The app is a lot of fun, and just $2. That’s a lot less than a real 1980s radio and tape deck. I’m off now to record some old Bon Jovi tracks. The classics from when Bon Jovi actually made music that was worth listening to.

Stereolizer product page [Stereolizer. Thanks, Aurore.]

Jon Bon Jovi slams Steve Jobs for ‘killing’ music [MSN]

Sunday Times JBJ Interview [Good luck finding it -- it's behind a paywall.]

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