May 26, 2009
roamin: “The Durutti Column are an english post-punk band that got their start in 1978 under the Factory Records umbrella.  Although they have gone through many lineup changes, they are still together today. In 1980 they released an album called “The Return of the Durutti Colum” and decided to do something special with the record jacket.  The sleeve for this record is covered in sandpaper.  Why, you ask?  Well, it’s so when the record is stored on a shelf next to other records, the very action of taking the record off the shelf and putting it back on will gradually ruin all the other records next to it .  How punk is that? Of course there was no manufacturing facility that had a “sandpaper album sleeve” option, so they had to hand-assemble them themselves.  Actually, Ian Curtis of Joy Division put all the records together by himself while the rest of the band watched porn in the same room , as he needed the extra money at the time. The album sleeve is a very rare collector’s items as there were only 2000 made, and there are 3 different variations of spray-paint on the sleeve.  You can actually still buy the album from Amazon , but unfortunately the reissue only has a very lame interpretation of the sandpaper cover. The sleeve design was inspired by a 1959 book called Mémoires by Guy Debord, a Marxist theorist, writer and filmmaker.”  Durutti Column: The Most Punk Album Cover Ever NoiseAddicts This makes me warm inside :)

roamin:

“The Durutti Column are an english post-punk band that got their start in 1978 under the Factory Records umbrella.  Although they have gone through many lineup changes, they are still together today.

In 1980 they released an album called “The Return of the Durutti Colum” and decided to do something special with the record jacket.  The sleeve for this record is covered in sandpaper.  Why, you ask?  Well, it’s so when the record is stored on a shelf next to other records, the very action of taking the record off the shelf and putting it back on will gradually ruin all the other records next to it .  How punk is that?

Of course there was no manufacturing facility that had a “sandpaper album sleeve” option, so they had to hand-assemble them themselves.  Actually, Ian Curtis of Joy Division put all the records together by himself while the rest of the band watched porn in the same room , as he needed the extra money at the time.

The album sleeve is a very rare collector’s items as there were only 2000 made, and there are 3 different variations of spray-paint on the sleeve.  You can actually still buy the album from Amazon , but unfortunately the reissue only has a very lame interpretation of the sandpaper cover.

The sleeve design was inspired by a 1959 book called Mémoires by Guy Debord, a Marxist theorist, writer and filmmaker.”  Durutti Column: The Most Punk Album Cover Ever

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This makes me warm inside :)

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  1. sismian reblogged this from roguepanda and added:
    RIP, Tony Wilson, a true maverick it seems all the most inovitive record labels are adopting Factories pioneering blue...
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    album cover story. Also, does anyone have 1996’s Time Was Gigantic… When We Were Kids? It’s
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    This makes me warm inside :)
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