Thrift Store Album Covers

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IcyHotStuntaz

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I was killing time at a local thrift store recently and stumbled down a rabbit hole... flipping through hundreds and hundreds of forgotten albums... and some of these simply needed to be shared.

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[insert sperm joke here]
But in all seriousness, this is just a cool picture. Reminds me of that scene in Terminator 2 when the nuke goes off.

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There is no possibly explicable reason, but I unironically love every single aspect of the this album cover.

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Coordinated suits: A fad that desperately needs to return

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While everything about this screams "Sex Offender Class Reunion", I give them a pass thanks to the coordinated suits.

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Somehow 1970s fashion is both the most hideous and most awesome thing you've ever seen at the same time.

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The Richard Harris Love Album
Alternate Title: The First Thing You See After Being Roofied

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I sincerely believe that all these people truly love Jesus... except for Wal-Mart Rod Stewart down there in the lower left... he just wants to fuck your daughter.

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Those three dudes are dressed so goddamn sharp that looking at the picture for too long will give your eyeballs paper cuts.

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...that awkward moment when you make eye contact with your neighbor... through her bathroom window.

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Paul McCartney's son... if Paul McCartney had knocked up his sister.

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".... well piss off Larry! ... Then you make the album cover! What the fuck am I supposed to do with three oily guys that play harmonica!?!?"

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Sing Along with Mitch... or he will eat your soul.

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Translation: This Way to the Boxcar

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Another thing that needs to make a comeback: Men with motherfuckin perms! Seriously, just take a few seconds and drink in that hair helmet. If I was rocking that, I'd proudly blow-dry that bitch to perfection every morning.

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Speaking of hair... never before have follicles more desperately wanted to escape a skull. Only gravity and various wind currents keep them from tearing off his scalp.

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When you are rapidly flipping through hundreds of albums... coming upon this one out of nowhere makes you step back for a second... you just aren't mentally prepared for this much of your vision to be filled with face. So fuck you Robbie Hiner!

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Quartet - noun - a group of four people playing music or singing together.

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Ok, ignore all that shit in the text about these two being Jesus singers... In my head-canon, this guy is the dictator of a small Southeast Asian country... and this is the photo you see on the wall right before a member of his secret police puts a bullet behind your ear.
 

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I decided to google Robbie Hiner.... because I'm an asshole with nothing constructive to do.... and holy shit...

This is the face she saw immediately after noticing all those tarps in the trunk of his car....

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Robbie Hiner - You're Gonna Love Your New Life (in my crawlspace)
 
That Filipino album looks fucking cool and knowing me I would've purchased it if I saw it in a thrift store.
 
Why do so many of these quartets comprise of more than four people?
 
Googling these obscure artists is now the next rabbit hole that I've fallen into...

I am oddly fascinated by everything in this video... the poor uncomfortable looking girl pushed up on stage and then yanked away... that giant harmonica... was she a giant harmonica groupie? Did Harmonicat #2 get a shameful 1950s handy behind the stage after the show?

 
Wal-Mart Rod Stewart gave me a laugh. Same for "This way to the boxcar."
If you can't laugh at a good old fashioned Holocaust joke, then we can't be friends...

As far as Wal-Mart Rod Stewart... Is that him on the far left? If so, it took him about 10 years to re-invent himself as Wal-Mart Don Johnson....

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So it turns out that Brady Bunch Dad Perm and the lady were regulars on the Lawrence Welk show back in the day... a show I vaguely remember my grandparents watching on PBS.

While this is a pretty milquetoast rendition of the Elvis Presley classic, I am all about that cream colored three piece suit with the ruffles.

 
Oh snap... just stumbled onto some additional pics on the phone from an earlier trip to the same thrift store...

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We'll make way for you alright... off you go to Vietnam!
NOTE: I am aware of the unwritten rules around here concerning doxxing yourself... I, Mr. Jerome Burman of St Clair Shores Michigan, humbly request that you do not mail boxes filled with your feces to my house.

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The aftermath of telling your hairstylist to "just make it look a little more circumcised"

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Joe Don Baker is Don Gibson in "Mitchell 2: A Perfect Mountain"
(also, is he wearing his watch both on the inside of his wrist and with the face inwards towards his arm?!? also also, apologies for the obscure MST3K joke)

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Every single pixel of this image screams "COCAINE!!!" ... They should have just named the group Dave Rowland & Nose Candy.

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Those are the greatest pair of pants ever captured on film.


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If that bottom photo is to be believed, the vagina of Mrs.Hargis was a goddamn clown car.

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Full disclosure: I didn't take this picture at the thrift store, I stumbled upon this online when googling one of the other gospel groups. My favorite part is how the lady and the dude immediately to the right are actually the same person wearing different wigs... and what the fuck is going on with the hair on that guy at the far right? It looks like a handful of carpet remnants haphazardly placed on his head.
 
Oh christ, I've been trying to reorganize my vinyl and it's all just sitting out. If I get around to it, I'll snap some pics. I've got some legit gems.

Mickey Mouse disco is one of my favorites. I want that "Come Quickly Jesus" album though. That looks like it was made by lite 70's cult.
 
Oh christ, I've been trying to reorganize my vinyl and it's all just sitting out. If I get around to it, I'll snap some pics. I've got some legit gems.

Mickey Mouse disco is one of my favorites. I want that "Come Quickly Jesus" album though. That looks like it was made by lite 70's cult.

Hah! The first album that I consciously remember sitting down and listening to from start to finish was Mickey Mouse Disco... I was probably five years old.

For some reason "Macho Duck" was on my Youtube recommended list a few months ago... So I chuckled and then proceeded to give the whole album a re-listen.. (At the time I was pretending to be on a Zoom meeting when "working from home"). Gotta be honest, and while I don't recommend that anybody go listen to it, I found it oddly fascinating. Imagine a bunch of musicians that were kicked out of their Mormon church band because they were too straight-edged... now imagine them recording a Disco album. Never have your ears soaked in such tightly played and competently recorded blandness... and I mean that as a compliment... sure, it's a backhanded compliment... but take what you can get Mickey Mouse Disco!


Oh yea... and post your legit gems already! we've exhausted our Mickey Mouse Disco ammo.
 
Hah! The first album that I consciously remember sitting down and listening to from start to finish was Mickey Mouse Disco... I was probably five years old.

For some reason "Macho Duck" was on my Youtube recommended list a few months ago... So I chuckled and then proceeded to give the whole album a re-listen.. (At the time I was pretending to be on a Zoom meeting when "working from home"). Gotta be honest, and while I don't recommend that anybody go listen to it, I found it oddly fascinating. Imagine a bunch of musicians that were kicked out of their Mormon church band because they were too straight-edged... now imagine them recording a Disco album. Never have your ears soaked in such tightly played and competently recorded blandness... and I mean that as a compliment... sure, it's a backhanded compliment... but take what you can get Mickey Mouse Disco!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=S7FAWfT6hiI
Oh yea... and post your legit gems already! we've exhausted our Mickey Mouse Disco ammo.
I'll try and snap some shots if I have some time today.
 

While that reply was only a cruel tease... I already have so many questions... well, two questions:

1) Who made the decision to release the "Chipmunk Song" album with cover art depicting grasshoppers? Either that guy was heavily into LSD before it was cool... or he had balls the size of cantaloupes... either way I want to shake his hand.
2) How the fuck wasn't K-Tel sued into the dirt for that "Looney Tunes" album cover? They were somehow able to completely rip off the Looney Tunes name, workmark and concentric circle thingy.. I guess they passed the legal test by using generic cartoon band members and not Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd?!? Lawyers and Law... I tell you... modern day witches and witchcraft...

Also, I am very disappointed that I've never come across any Freddie Fender in my thrift store browsing. His picture takes me back to my high school days in the late 80s / early 90s. I was into photography at the time, back in the days when you had to hunker down in a dark room and inhale noxious fumes from whothefuck knows what kind of chemicals in order to develop photographs onto paper. So of course, I spent two years on the yearbook staff. There was a shelf in the yearbook room where we had a copy of every yearbook the school ever produced dating back to it's founding in 1951 or whenever it was. There were a bunch of student pictures in the 1970s yearbooks when the crazed hair would take up all or almost all of the frame... leaving little to none of the background visible. Most of these were 1970s era black girls, but you'd get the occasional determined latino like Freddie or maybe a jewfro here and there... but mostly black girls. It looked a little something like this:
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