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Sick DIYers Mutilate Vinyl Records

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We’ve shown a few vids like this before, but this one is by far the SICKEST one yet for vinyl collectors, as the woman in this video not only recommends DIYers BAKE the records in an oven at home (toxic fumes, anyone?) but also encourages people to seek out COLORED VINYL to perform these mutilations to.

We’re all in favor of re-using and recycling records that are scratched, warped, and otherwise useless (how many copies of the soundtrack to No No Nanette, Flower Drum Song, and Jesus Christ Superstar do we REALLY NEED in this world?). But there’s no such caveat given in this.

Nope, she might as well be saying, “Yes, you know that acetate of The Velvet Underground’s first recording you picked up at a garage sale last summer? Go right ahead and CUT THAT MOTHER UP.”



Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers Spanish Version

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The Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers was released in America with a cover designed by Andy Warhol, the iconic “zipper” cover which originally had a real, working zipper.

Warhol biographies say two models were used to shoot the cover image–the zipper unzips to reveal another crotch clad in boxer shorts–and nobody was definitively told whose (covered) junk it is. Hope that doesn’t keep you up at night…some sources say Warhol actor Joe Dellasandro and Warhol boyfriend Jed Johnson are the crotches in question.

But for the Spanish release of Sticky Fingers, a less “pornographic” cover was required…so what THOSE lucky stiffs got was this vaguely Burroughsian (to me) cover…

The original Spanish edition of Sticky Fingers, in addition to the alternate cover art, omits Sister Morphine (can’t imagine why, heh). Some sources say the Warhol zipper cover had its problems in some American chain stores because of the prominent outline of the model’s junk.

Seeing a prominent bulge in a pair of jeans was apparently was enough to send some uptight dingbats into a frenzy of moral outrage. People were dumber back then.

–Joe Wallace

Moschino Vinyl Record Watch

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Vinyl junkies (OK, me) can start making their Christmas want lists now…this vinyl record-themed wristwatch by Moschino is an awesome find, but when I searched for it on Amazon I could only find it available for women.  Sorry, gents.

It’s called the Time 4 Music by Moschino and comes with a leather wrist strap. This should go straight onto the shopping list for vinyl junkie girlfriends everywhere. If she owns a turntable, chances good are she’ll be into this.

Here’s a video of the Time 4 Music from every conceivable angle….



Innocent Vinyl Records Murdered by Crafters

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Please tell me these records were all copies of Jesus Christ Superstar, Meatloaf, and No No Nanette. Please.




Does anyone know of anyone who would actually eat FOOD out of these things? Or is this “decorative art”? I’m all in favor of deep-sixing, recycling, and reutilizing scratched, nasty, or just plain unsaleable records, to be sure…but this still looks like torture porn. Nice work on the “aged film” effects tho.