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If art is indicative of culture then no better state of our culture can be assessed than a quick perusal of the trashy LP covers that appeared between the late sixties and late seventies, or what I call the Golden Age. Specific attention should be given to the ones featuring glamour girls. For sheer trashiness look no further than the awful covers of the records featuring rugby and football songs, or army barrack ballads or, perhaps more exemplary, the covers of Klaus Wunderlich's barrage of Hammond organ greats, notable only for the sleeves rather than the contents. His album covers invariably tended to be resplendent with beautiful, voluptuous girls, most of them often wearing as little as possible, and all striking provocative poses. One wonders how many units our Klaus would have shifted if it had not been for the beauties adorning his sleeves. And of course there is good reasoning behind this approach .... read more THIS SITE UPDATED JANUARY
2010 Apologies, apologies. Yes I know I haven't updated this site for over two years, so please don't keep reminding me by sending me more emails. I do have a life, you know! Actually, the real reason for my absence from this site is that I've been working on other sites far more serious than RetroTrash, and this one had to be put on the back-burner for awhile until I got those sorted out. Also, I've had a real problem trying to find more covers to stick here as there seems to be an appalling dearth in trashy vinyl. Is it my imagination are all charity shops precluding the selling of vinyl now? All my local ones don't keep any vinyl in stock and won't even go anywhere near records anymore. The same with my regular visits to the south. I was very disappointed last time to find not only have the charity shops there stopped selling vinyl, half of the shops have, for some inexplicable reason, closed down. The one remaining which I was praying would be a good bet, namely Frogget and Leggit, who used to have tons of vinyl stacking a whole wall of shelving, now has a paltry record box with about a dozen LPs in it. What is going on? The same goes for the carboot sales; their disposable vinyl junk has dwindled dramatically. Is somebody going round buying up all the stock before I get there? No, the sad fact is, and I would be the last person on earth to admit it, is that vinyl is finally on its way out. Bitten the dust. Gone to the great DJ in the sky. Ceased to persist. Disappeared into the great hole of the record collector's wasteland. And I'm not joking. There has been a drastic decrease in the amount of vinyl (particularly trashy stuff) floating around. Vinyl is no more. Hence my inability to add as many new covers to this site as I wish I could. It seems to be getting harder, also, to find new items that I don't already have. When I do find somebody selling vinyl junk, I get sore and bitter, and increasingly frustrated to find that I've got most of them anyway. A shame. A great pity, but I believe vinyl is finally doomed. So with that soft lament, all I can tell you is I'm going to have to look a damned sight harder now, as these things are getting scarcer and scarcer. I've updated the site with a few more covers, approximately about 60, which was a struggle in itself. The Tops of the Pops LPs, which seemed to be available everywhere, also have become distinctly scarce locally, which in itself is strange as they were the most likely ones you'd come across. Not anymore, alas. And the same for other series. But I will keep looking and endeavour to fill out these pages a bit more if I can, so please be patient, and keep checking us out. Jon Lange |
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