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Show off your unique vinyl LPs

JamVal said:
Chinese version of Donovan's What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid.
I served on Taiwan in the early 1970's. Back then Taiwan didn't recognize anyone's copyrights and allowed LP's and books to be pressed and printed without permission. These LP's were sold in Taipei book stores for 25 cents a piece (10$NT - at a US dollar exchange rate of 40$NT to a US dollar). Most of them were pressed on the red or green vinyl. I don't know where this one came from, my son gave it to me. We weren't allowed to bring them back into the United States for obvious reasons. The quality of the pressings and the vinyl were bad. You might get one good play out of them. The good news was that decent quality Pioneer, Kenwood, Sansui, Akai, Teac equipment could be legally purchased at the Navy Exchange at high discounts. First plays of these LP's were recorded to Akai or Teac reel-to-reels.
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The record jackets were printed on cheap paper:
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After being recorded on open reel decks the LP's were tossed in the Barracks Day Room. They were stacked to the ceiling.
The Chinese 'entrepreneurs' would even press Billboard's top 10 hits to vinyl each month.
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That is awesome.
 
I try to go to record shops where ever my travels take me. Was in Singapore on business last year and asked the doorman at the hotel I was staying at to call a cab to go to a record store I had found on the Internet. He suggested another place that he recommended - he was a younger guy and into music. The shop turned out to be in an old warehouse, no sign out front. The taxi driver dropped me off outside the warehouse complex and basically told me good luck. Found the building address, went up the freight elevator to the correct floor and just followed the noise. Spent an hour or so going through these old Singapore 45s - basically surf rock with Chinese lyrics. Brought a handful to the counter, realized the place didn't take credit cards - and the woman running the place just told me to give her whatever (little) cash I had and call it quits. All in all, one of the more unique record shopping experiences I've had.

And the music even sounds good. I still play these once in a when I'm up for fiddling with the Pro-ject's speed control (i.e. going under the platter and moving the belt).

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This is one of my favorites....Lily and Madeline's album Fumes. Produced by Asthmatic Kitty records (Sufjan Stevens)....and properly marketed as Coca Cola bottle blue!

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I have many, but they're all packed away so no pix of my own to post. Of the many examples, a definite standout is the first LP by legendary Krautrock outfit Faust, firt-issue West Germany Polydor. The vinyl is "Clear". It looks like this set atop its cardboard cover sleeve and plastic "outer" sleeve (w/ xray image of hand):

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The early 1990s special Hendrix releases by Rykodisc (Radio One and Live At Winterland) have a green-tinged clear vinyl. Pretty cool lookin' discs IMO. Content ain' bad neither.
 
Mystic said:
I have many, but they're all packed away so no pix of my own to post. Of the many examples, a definite standout is the first LP by legendary Krautrock outfit Faust, firt-issue West Germany Polydor. The vinyl is "Clear". It looks like this set atop its cardboard cover sleeve and plastic "outer" sleeve (w/ xray image of hand):

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Very cool. Thanks for posting!
 
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