{"id":143,"date":"2004-03-13T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-13T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2004-03-13T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-13T15:52:00","slug":"143","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Vanity vinyl<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the Pork Tornado<\/a> blog, a couple of pages of the strangest and\/or worst album covers ever. Most date from the 1970s, but that’s not the problem. As someone who was alive and buying albums back then, I can say that some of these would have chilled my blood even then.<\/p>\n

But it’s like “vanity publishing:” if you want to pay for it, you can be a recording, uh, artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vanity vinyl From the Pork Tornado blog, a couple of pages of the strangest and\/or worst album covers ever. Most date from the 1970s, but that’s not the problem. As someone who was alive and buying albums back then, I can say that some of these would have chilled my blood even then. 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