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LionsMouth
The The - Mind Bomb

Not sure how to describe this...artsy pop music of the highest order. If you like this type of thing, you definitely need a few albums by Matt Johnson/The The in your collection.

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LionsMouth
The Durutti Column - Return of the Durutti Column

Here is my vinyl copy of the album. This was a fancy reissue done by Factory Benelux a year or two ago, complete with a redesigned version of the sandpaper jacket.

That's the version I have too, the one that came with a bonus 7" and the sandpaper jacket. It's a wonderful album.

As cool as the sandpaper cover idea is, it's easily gotta be the most difficult to deal with design. First off, I know it's supposed to rub up against other record covers to destroy them, that's why it's called the album killer, but yeah, no thanks says my other albums on either side. And small amounts of sand is coming off the thing which as you can probably deduce, it's not good for vinyl when it gets on the grooves. So I put the sandpaper cover all alone by itself in a glossy plastic outer sleeve. Then I put the records in a separate plastic outer sleeve that holds the cover's outer sleeve which keeps the vinyl away from the sand completely.

I thought Kanye West's cover on "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" was a pain in the ass, then I got the RZA - Liquid Swords Chess box which was the new pain in the ass album cover, and then this came along and said fuck you I got sand on me so it is my new most cumbersome cover. Yet despite that I gotta say I still love the album. I think I would have been just as happy without the sandpaper cover though but then I wouldn't have this story to tell so who knows.

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Boombat
Really love The The. Nice pick. I have to say that Dusk is my favorite by them. I agree as well, these are good additions to a collection.