In a recent thread about a really nice haul of vinyl LPs, Chimpkin wrote the following:

...make sure to look in the jackets when you clean the records. You never know what will turn up. I've found original receipts, notes, newspaper clippings and some people have found money.

We've had threads here before about weird stuff found inside of larger gear like receivers and amps. What about LP covers? What is the strangest, most surprising or memorable thing you've found inside an LP cover/jacket?

I've found plenty with nothing inside or with the 'wrong' record inside; a few newspaper clippings, a manual for some Akai BPC POS, one nude snapshot, but I'm still waiting for that bearer bond worth several million...

Concert tickets, 45's in with the album, concert programs and lots of dog hair.

The giant rolling paper in a Cheech and Chong album. BTW it worked.

playboy pages!

King bubba- funny you should mention that. Pulled the rolling paper from Cheech & Chong's "Big Bamboo" from an Eric Clapton rekkid... ????




Odd things found in record sleeves? So far, weed and pubic hair.

concert tickets, hash, weed, pubes, hot polaroids, money (50$ bill from the 70's), and a very vintage condom still in its wrapper.

I found a centerfold from some defunct porn magazine in a copy of Hotel California...

... that I bought at an estate sale. :yuck: :puke:

playboy pages!
+1. Quite a few centerfolds that are pretty tame today but were hot stuff in the 70's.

I found this "poem" written on an inner sleeve:

He live on top of that sad hill
The one nobody would climb
He looked down at the peoples faces
Looking at the ground
He said "Hey, there, nothing to say
Just don't be afraid to fall."
They said Why, Why should we try
when we're so safe at home
Why can't you learn to fly!

I stuck it up over my desk.

It was in a Bee Gees Greatest Hits lp.

Strawberry flavored rolling papers in a girl named Linda's copy of Yesshows.
Jimmy

+1. Quite a few centerfolds that are pretty tame today but were hot stuff in the 70's.

Yeah most of the stuff on these rather dirty pages was no worse than what you can catch on TV before 8PM :D

I found a used Beatles concert ticket from Aug. 15th, 1966 at D.C. Stadium. Lower Deck $5. I can't remember what album I found it in and unsure how it got from D.C. to Missouri. It is kind of cool as it has a pic of the Beatles on it.

The price of concerts seems to have risen a wee bit since 1966.

Well some weed, unused condom, rolling paper, matches, some scary drawings, and some change (no bills though:/ ).

When I worked at a record store in the late 90's we use to get some interesting things in records. Love letters, and pornographic polaroid pictures mostly. A store here in Austin even found some old dope in a record:

http://www.whetstoneaudio.com/?p=225

We once had a Metallica CD that someone traded, a live bootleg, and after it sold we had tons of high school kids coming in asking for it because they heard we had it. Finally we asked what the deal was, apparently it had a sheet of acid behind the back cover.

I think the most funniest things found inside album covers are creases and the slight creases on the record sleeve.

Some of the music! :screwy:

I guess since I inspired the thread I should comment. I have found original receipts from the purchase of albums. Which is cool. It gives you some history of the album. I always place them back in the sleeve.

I have also found a couple of newspaper clippings relating to the bands, a couple of hand written letters and a note from a high school nurse that stated that this girls dental exam was fine. Haven't found money yet.

The actual music, money, porno centerfolds, concert ticket stubs and programs, coke, weed, hash, the usual suspects.

I never find anything good in albums. I have my original "up in smoke" album, but I must have done something with the giant rolling paper? Recollection is a bit hazy...John

Partridge Family and Hardy Boys press photos; K-Tel brochures and record club catalogs; a signed fan club card; promo 45's issued in magazines; a fully intact jigsaw puzzle; and a couple of hand-written "I think he likes me but Suzy said he still likes her, but I know she doesn't like him" type notes.

this topic has run here before, and one of the posters bought a Sonic Youth demo somewhere in the south, Georgia, i think. inside the sleeve, he found a letter from Thurston Moore addressed to his grandmother, explaining to her that he knew she wouldn't like the music, but he nevertheless wanted her to know what he'd been up to. the AK member forwarded the letter to Moore, who said he didn't recall writing the letter, but rec'd it as his own, and thanked him for taking the time to follow through

about a 2 gram size of vintage weed bud fell out of the center of zep song remains the same back in the 80s when i was a teen. i enjoyed it.

Wow, that's where I keep my pornographic polaroids too.

sadly nothing but old musty smells and cat fur

The only odd thing I've found is a 1st Air Cavelry training completion certificate inside of a copy of Hotel California dated in the early 70's. I wonder how the original owner made out in the war.

I guess classical music buffs don't have much imagination, all I have ever found are some libretti in opera LPs or adverts from the recording companies about upcoming releases. Nary a single nekkid woman's picture.

I have a mountain of 60s and 70s rock and pop releases, and I have yet to find anything odd in any of them. Must have come from boring owners.

John McLaughlin's autograph and best wishes on Mahavishnu Orchestra's "Inner Mounting Flame" album. It reads "Keep the home fires burning - Best of luck on your upcoming marrige" and then his signature. :D

Lowell George's obituary clipped from the paper inside of Little Feat's "Sailin' Shoes" album. :tears:

Unused tickets for The Who in Philly at The Spectrum in 1979 (I was at that concert!) inside of a "Quadrophenia" album. :yes:

Some very stale, dried out and compressed weed in "Greatful Dead Europe '72" album. :smoke:

*ADD-ON* How could I forget the nasty, moldy panties inside of the Alice Cooper "School's Out" album. How did they ever get Warner Brothers to go for that? :scratch2:

I have a mountain of 60s and 70s rock and pop releases, and I have yet to find anything odd in any of them. Must have come from boring owners.

Proabably means yours are in better shape too:thmbsp:

A failing mid term report card for a young lady has been the best for me so far.

Weed, porn, money? That's nothing. I recently bought a copy of The Who's "Live At Leeds", and inside the sleeve I found several typewritten letters from the band's label, management and concert promoters (some referring to the band by its previous name, "The High Numbers"), an invoice for smoke generators, a photograph of the band, and the typewritten lyrics of "My Generation" with handwritten notes (possibly written by Pete Townshend himself!). I'm going to make a fortune selling this priceless Who memorabilia! :D

A naked photo of a guys wife that I bought the album from .... I actually called him and gave it back .... He told me that his wife didn't know about the photo as it was kind of a candid shot of her passed out .... We had quite a laugh over it

Not the best photo, but this was in the funky-looking album cover you see in the background:

http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/uu228/avalinor/Extra2.jpg

Hmm. I guess this guy collected tiny stamps. :D

BTW, I put it back in the cover and may frame them together one day as a kind of period piece.

Not the best photo of this, but this was in the funky-looking album cover you see in the background:

http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/uu228/avalinor/Extra2.jpg

Hmm. I guess this guy collected tiny stamps. :D

BTW, I put it back in there and may frame it all one day as kind of a period piece.

Hey thats where I left my blotter man :smoke:

Don't do the brown acid :thmbsp:

Hey thats where I left my blotter man :smoke:

Don't do the brown acid :thmbsp:

Heh Heh. I bet if I sampled it, I might see all kinds of strange and amazing things falling out of my album covers. :para:

I only wonder if I would flashback to the 60s or whatever era it's from. Time travel? :D

A couple of nondescript receipts, a couple of random hokey flexi-discs and one condom wrapper.

This thread has had some amazing replies.

It made me remember a dream I had last night where I found a huge flattened joint(Big Bambu paper sized joint)inside a book I'd opened.
I'd forgotten all about that dream until I started reading this thread......

I picked up several titles today. Some elvis and beetles, A littel cream and some beachboys.
Inside teh billy joel glass houses lp was a the inner sleave and vinyl from the wall. The most interesting thing was several grams of white powder that had spilled out of the plastic baggie and foil onto the vinyl. Not quite sure what the stuff was, but by how nervous the lady who sold me the albums got when she saw it, I would bet it was baking soda or maybe powdered sugar!:D

A naked picture of a hot girl I went to high School with in a Jethro Tull LP
A great review of McCartney from the New York Times about his show at Madison Square Garden during the Wings Over America Tour. The Lp was a promo copy of Band On The Run
I also found and I can't figure out how it happened but it's a copy of Humble Pie Rock On and the inside cover is the same as Yes Close To The Edge

This is a very enjoyable thread, for sure!:D

Bought a couple of albums and inside a Gordon Lightfoot album was 3 of a 4 set of the Monkees' records that you cut off a cereal box. They do play but the sound is crappy.
Card board records.

sloober; wonder why you don't remember that?
Big Bambu..........

found a joint in a copy of aqualung.

Why are all the drugs found in my favorite album's?

Weed, porn, money? That's nothing. I recently bought a copy of The Who's "Live At Leeds", and inside the sleeve I found several typewritten letters from the band's label, management and concert promoters (some referring to the band by its previous name, "The High Numbers"), an invoice for smoke generators, a photograph of the band, and the typewritten lyrics of "My Generation" with handwritten notes (possibly written by Pete Townshend himself!). I'm going to make a fortune selling this priceless Who memorabilia! :D

Hey, my copy has the same things included! How much do you think we can make on eBay?

Seriously, those all came with the album.

For record questions, the Record Collector's Guild has some really knowledgeable people:
Leeds album (http://recordcollectorsguild.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=21554&highlight=leeds)
Leeds album again (http://recordcollectorsguild.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=11264&highlight=leeds)

A self-signed newspaper article of a Cars concert the ex-owner attended on Long Island in 1982 found inside "Shake it Up".

Sand, well... not really funny, but odd.

mike

Bought a couple of albums and inside a Gordon Lightfoot album was 3 of a 4 set of the Monkees' records that you cut off a cereal box. They do play but the sound is crappy.
Card board records.

Love your avatar
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Funny you should ask.I bought a few LP's at the local thrift store last week,one of them was "K-tell-Starburst" 2 record set,but in one album cover, from 1978.So as the old lady is ringing them up at the check-out,out rolls a Porno DVD-"Colossal C**ks"with a very descriptive label-the look on her face was priceless as she realized what it was-she put it back in the album like it was burning her hand! You can't make this stuff up....

I found a bunch of magazine and newspaper clippings in a Steve Winwood album. Not to unusual….

However the Guy’s name was on the cover, so I did a search and only one person’s name matched in the state so I stuffed all of the clippings in an envelope and mailed it to him. Whether or not that was the former owner I’ll bet it was a kind of “What the hell?!!” moment when he opened the envelope!:saywhat: