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Thank you for the incredible distraction from my work. I really enjoyed the section Crazy Xians.
There are people who collect albums specifically for their cover art. They frame them, hang the most shocking pieces on their happy walls. While searching for info on Straker's Record World, I found LP Cover Lover, a blog dedicated to "the world's greatest LP album covers." It's kept by a couple of vinyl-loving friends named Tony and Matthew.
My friend Tony and I are record collectors and we especially love finding old records with crazy, beautiful, sexy, funny, shocking, provocative, absurd, tacky covers. We search flea markets, salvation armies, house sales, stoop sales, garbage cans and, when we can find them, record stores that still sell vinyl.
Tony and Matthew must be pleased with vinyl's mainstream resurgence. Their blog is easy to navigate and, with their findings sorted into only the most essential categoriesBig Heads; Cheesecake; Voodoo & Magic; S+E+X; Records and Players; Jennifer; Guns; Heaven and Hell; Bongos and Bagels (my favorite!); and Nude, for instanceyou're liable to fill many hours with excellent art.
The album pictured here comes from the collection of Michael Lavorgna. He says it answers the age-old question: What's so great about records and hi-fi?
That, it does. You don't have to tell me what's so great about records and hi-fi. Um cavaquinho em hi-fi!
When I was a kid, my sister bought "Hotel California" LP. I loved that cover. I could stare at it for hours. There were so many things within that photograph. I would always find something new. If you look closely at it, you begin to realize just what a weird cover it is even though it looks fairly normal from the first glance. It's one thing I missed about albums. Alas, that's the only thing I miss. :D