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The Zipper and the Damage Done
No, this is not a confession of mid-life infidelity and how my life has unraveled. Just a trivial tale about the fatal demise of one of my favourite records.
Having rediscovered the joys of vinyl, I find that the back cover of Something/Anything by Todd Rundgren has been badly marked by being pressed against the zipper on the Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers.
(younger readers, if they've bothered to read this far, may care to note that the jeans on the original album had a proper metal zipper).
Worse, because the zip handle protrudes so much, it has marked the vinyl and has rendered the track Torch Song (a beautiful ballad) unplayable.
So if you have an old copy of Sticky Fingers, you might want to make sure it’s not doing similar damage to one of your favourites.
The photo here shows the impression of the zip rising up through Todd's chin and the more serious damage done to his eye. What a pisser.
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You should have seen....
what Sticky Fingers used to do to the shrink-wrap machine in the HMV stock room. As the shrapnel flew, price stickers were used as makeshift plasters to stem the flow of blood.
a gruesome tale
from the front line Archie. You try telling the young folk with their downloads how tough we had it. And don't get me started on the CD generation, complaining about their cracked jewel cases.
Erm...
Why didn't you just place Sticky Fingers at the front of the stack?
You sound like my wife
She's always wise after the event too
Oh thank god.
I thought this was going to be a There's Something About Mary horror story.
*cries*
i think the trick with Sticky Fingers
is that you should store the album with the zipper in the 'down' position, as then it will only have an effect on the label of neighbouring albums.
Interesting, this suggests that your albums are filed in
title order: Something/Anything immediately before Sticky Fingers
If it were by artist then, presumably, Rolling Stones would be in front of Rundgren.
Think again Stimpy
Isn't the front of an lp sleeve usually facing the back of the next lp (alphabetically speaking)..
Yes... so the front of Sticky Fingers (with the zip)
would be facing the back of Something/Anything if S/A was filed to the left of SF on the shelf.
no such method gentlemen
this would have occurred while they were stuck in a cupboard in random order after we moved house.
I agree with Paolo
My copy of Sticky Fingers has for many, many years been at the end of my vinyl collection, having quickly realised the damage it did. It sits in front of John Cooper Clarke's Snap, Crackle & Bop which doesn't fit neatly because of the poetry book that fits into the breast pocket.
Wot, no Roxy?
Don't you have any Roxy Music albums? I've got Linda Ronstadt's greatest hits acting as a buffer zone between my Stones albums and the rest of the R's. Or better still, get one of those ropey Eighties Stones albums like Still Life and let that take the punishment.
Am I remembering correctly...
...wasn't there a record that had a sandpaper sleeve?
Anyone?
lmgtfy
http://tinyurl.com/68z7w3g
This one?
http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/fact14.html
That would go nicely with...
... Wild Willy Barrett's Organic Bondage with its wooden sleeve.