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READS HIS POETRY (LIMITED YELLOW BEER EDITION) Vinyl Record

$30.00
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READS HIS POETRY (LIMITED YELLOW BEER EDITION) Vinyl Record

$30.00
Merchbar Gold Supplier
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Extremely limited yellow beer-colored vinyl LP pressing. “This is Charles Bukowski. Well, let me just sit here and drink beer.” Thus begins the September 14, 1972 poetry reading from which this 1980 release on John Fahey’s Takoma label is drawn. This is quintessential Bukowski, from the rude ‘n’ crude drawing that adorns the front cover to the belches that punctuate the poems. As for the work itself, it’s not really what you’d commonly conceive of as poetry, but rather observations and vignettes drawn from life’s darker side, focusing on perversions, poverty, drunkenness, gambling, and bodily functions. But Bukowski’s bemused air and self-deprecating humor blunt the shock value of the words and emphasize the universality of the themes. “I want you to hate me,” he says to the audience, but it’s hopeless—he is one of us. This recording was rescued from the clinical, digital world of the compact disc and restored to its proper vinyl format. If there were ever an echo of the analog, non-PC (personal computers or politically correct) world, this album would be it.

Protection
Each record is protected within its record sleeve by a white vellum anti-dust sleeve.

Packaging
All items are shipped brand-new and unopened in original packaging. Every record is shipped in original factory-applied shrink wrap and has never been touched by human hands.

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