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WTF Album Covers: Atrocity Upon Atrocity

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WTF album covers don’t have to necessarily be technically awful or tastelessly inept. They can also simply lend themselves to pure mockery by obvious double entendre titles or conceptual silliness. Look at these two beauties:

I don’t want to know about their happy hands. I do NOT want to know about their happy hands. Please don’t tell me about their happy hands.

Burning question: how much cocaine did it take for this cover to seem like a GOOD IDEA? The name of this record is “Ride A Rock Horse” but “rock” isn’t the word you’re thinking of right now. It does RHYME with “rock” though.

And finally, an open letter from the future to born again recording artists of the past. KNOCK IT OFF WITH THE EFFING PUPPETS ALREADY. Thank you.

Graham Norton Vs. The Bad Album Covers

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Turntabling’s WTF collection of repellent, frightening, and just plain bad album covers is not an original concept–plenty of websites have a section devoted to them, though some like to believe that Turntabling is a bit more slavishly devoted to bad album covers than others.

Whatever the case, people LOVE crap album covers–and if YouTube is any indication, they love them a lot more than previously suspected. There’s just something really gratifying about laughing at the expense of these paragons of awfulness–who can deny the cheap yucks? Not Turntabling, and certainly not the uber-fabulous Graham Norton (a turntabling favorite) who spotlighted these familiar howlers on a recently posted edition of his show:



Crate Digging In Chicago

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A YouTuber called Zolione76 posted this video about adventures crate digging in Chicago. The clip features Dave of the Chicago vinyl stalwart Dave’s Records, a shop I’ve long enjoyed. Dave’s is a friendly, genuine vinyl-loving shop and if you come to the Windy City you owe yourself a look there.

There is also a look at Dusty Groove Records which you cannot miss if you come here. Turntabling, being based in Chicago, is VERY spoiled with the availability of great LPs, rare stuff comes through here all the time and is definitely a destination city for vinyl in the same way as Pittsburgh, PA.