Walkers - “Dabadio-Dabadie” / “Set Me Free” 45, Philips, 1972.

Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - “Je T’Aime… Moi Non Plus” / “Jane B” 45, Fontana, 1969.

Hot Butter - “Pop Corn” 45 (Version Originale), on Barclay, 1972.

A homemade folio created for storing 7” records. Spotted this afternoon at a thrift store in Copenhagen.

Spotted yesterday at Accord Records in Copenhagen. Despite the teddy bear’s smile, there is nothing happy looking about this record.

Spotted yesterday at Accord Records in Copenhagen. One of several Danish records with a child cover theme that I’ll post.

I’m finding that records are really expensive in Copenhagen by U.S. standards and so far even the ‘dollar records’ are more like $6.00 records. Fortunately it doesn’t cost anything to take photos. Here is the first post of some Danish records that have child-oriented cover themes.

I’m not usually much for jazz/rock/fusion but last weekend at the flea market a copy of Lenny White’s album The Adventures of Astral Pirates (Elektra, 1978) caught my eye for its cover graphics. Since it was dirt cheap, I decided to dig in. I’m not entirely sold on the music thus far and have yet to really ponder the concept of this mostly instrumental record, which is something to do with a water planet Zeroid that was ravaged after a nuclear holocaust. I am, however pretty delighted by the packaging, and interior gatefold panels. Here’s a detail of the front cover art by Anthony Gleeson. More from the interior to come.

One of the joys of buying used records is finding things that the previous owner left inside the sleeve. This card, typed in Braille, was inside a copy of Bitches Brew by Miles Davis that I picked up yesterday at a flea market. Huge thanks to koda-cub for translating it:

“It’s a list of songs. Vivaldi’s Virtuosi di Roma, Concerto Grosso in A Minor (Op. 3 No. 8), Bela’s Violin Concerto #2, and Vivaldi’s Il Sospetto in C Minor. The writer of the paper consistently spells ‘minor’ with an e.”

Black and white covers - some of today’s flea market record scores, with the exception of Ebba Grön, a fine Swedish punk record that came from an antique market in Bangor, Maine of all places.

Prisoner of Love vs. Number of the Beast. Part of this morning’s record haul from the first day of the seasonal flea market.

Another small round of the eternal project: filing the records on the floor to clear a little space, this time with help from Magma, and H.R. Giger, who did the cover art for Attahk. Some of these records are recent acquisitions. Others have been sitting on the floor for at least a year. View the entire, never quite complete list here.

Magma - Attahk LP
Nomads, The - Outburst LP
Ex, The + Tom Cora - Scrabbling At The Lock LP
Ex, The + Tom Cora - And the Weathermen Shrugged Their Shoulders LP
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures LP
Terveet Kadet - The Horse LP
Wipers, The - Youth of America LP
GRRR - S/T LP
Cosmic Jokers, The - S/T LP
Arriver - Tsushima LP
Come - Near Life Experience LP
Wargasm - Why Play Around? LP
Saint Vitus - Hallow’s Victim LP
Love - S/T LP
Swans - I Crawled 12” EP
Swans - Greed LP
Brainbombs - Obey LP

In 1989, the New York City-based band Cop Shoot Cop released a 7” on Vertical Records titled Piece Man. The record was produced in an edition of 1000 copies, many or all of which were splattered with pig’s blood, obtained from a local butcher and applied with a spray bottle.

I’ve been on a quest to find photos of every copy of this 7”. So far I have found 16 variations. You can see them here. If you own this record, please photograph or scan it and send your variation to: marc [at] publiccollectors.org. Here is the latest addition to this digital collection, just added today after it turned up in a search on eBay.

A thrift store record I did not buy: the back cover of an original cast recording for the musical Carnival.

A thrift store record I did buy: Sensorimotor Training in the Classroom, produced by Educational Activities, Inc., undated.