Monday, February 20, 2012

Wretched Records and Crappy Covers


This record goes to show that you can stuff a schlock-slinging goober into a leather jacket and put him on a motorcycle and he’ll still be a schlock-slinging goober. When kids tore the wrapping paper from this record on Christmas Day, where their parents saw good, clean, rockin’ fun, they saw a literal and figurative square.


This was released hot on the heels of Ruth Welcome's worldwide smash hit, Lo-Fi Lute.


Sadly, ol’ Dizzy Fingers never made another record. While promoting his LP in Africa, Cope was gunned down by ivory poachers who wanted his teeth.


“Hey, boys, before tonight’s gig, why don’t you say we all head down to the Sears Portrait Studio for our album close-up? We can shop for Toughskins afterward.” This so-called auspicious debut is so good that the LP’s original owner didn’t crack the seal—no doubt to keep it “mint.”

For every new album being stamped on wax these days there seems to be several more being reissued. Somehow I don’t think this record will ever get its 180-gram colored vinyl deluxe redux. Call it a hunch.

2 comments:

PJEhrbar said...

Hi-Fi Zither - Capitol Records? Really??

Anonymous said...

awesome. and that "schlock-slinging goober" looks like jim carey in some bullshit bucket-list joint.