Alvaro - Drinkin My Own Sperm - New Unsealed LP Record LTD
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"Beautiful reissue of the 1977 debut solo LP by Alvaro -- the Chilean with the Singing Nose. Alvaro Peña-Rojas was an advertising exec who ended up living in a squat in London when he chucked his professional career to fulfill his dream of being a musician. Rooming with he-who-would-become Joe Strummer, Alvaro was a founding member of the squat's pub-rock band, The 101ers. After the Pistols opened for The 101ers at the Nashville Rooms, Strummer felt like he was destined to become a punk, and founded The Clash. Alvaro took his own trio into the studio (along with singer Cathy Williams, then in Red Balune with her boyfriend, Geoff Leigh) and used his savings to record Drinkin My Own Sperm, which he then had pressed up on his own Squeaky Shoes label. The music is a mad mélange -- like Andean lounge music in parts, like berserk early Eno in others, and filled with the strange joy of Alvaro's keyboard inventions throughout. The album's title-track -- which Alvaro has long claimed was an ode to his lonely existence in London -- strikes us more like the move of a canny marketer. Because of its title, the record was banned on the BBC and often noted in contemporary mainstream journals as yet another sign of the disgrace that was punk. Of course, we leave the ultimate decision to you, but one has to wonder. This new release has both the lyric insert that accompanied the second pressing back in '78, as well as an historical booklet penned by Brian Turner (of WFMU) and Byron Coley. 800 copies were pressed." --Byron Coley, 2015
Shipping Information: LPs: In the USA: Media mail: $4.00 for the first LP, $1.00 for each additional. Rest of World: Items are shipped via priority mail international. PLEASE WAIT FOR AN INVOICE before paying if you are making an international order. The eBay calculator does not work properly. Generally LPs are between 10 and 20 USD depending on how many your order. LPs are shipped in an LP mailer with front and back cardboard pads. CDs and DVDs: In the USA: $3.00 for the first CD, $.50 for each additional. Usually shipped first class. Large orders may be shipped media mail. Rest of World Items are shipped via priority mail international. PLEASE WAIT FOR AN INVOICE. CDs are shipped in a standard bubble mailer. Books: Due to problems in the past, I only ship books to the U.S. If you want to try to convince me to ship a book somewhere else, contact me.
Returns: To receive credit for a return it must be sealed (if it was received that way) and in like new condition. Other returns will be accepted on a case by case basis at sellers discretion. Due to the limited nature of the LPs we sell, for exchanges we can not guarantee that a replacement will be available.
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