Many years ago at my current place of employment, someone made a donation of, who knows, maybe 15,000 vinyl records. This was long before I took the job. After the donation was accepted, the records proceeded to sit down in a dark room called the receiving room and went untouched for years. The records would have probably sat there indefinitely, but due to space issues, it was finally decided to do something about them. So it fell to me and a small band of others to see to it that the records vacated the premises. Of the many jobs I’ve had at my workplace, this is the job I have enjoyed the most. I like the job, because I get an incredible sense of joy watching physical things happen to space (i.e. records slowly disappear from the receiving room). The best part about the entire job is that a number of vinyl finds have been made along the way. I’ve been introduced to the music of Glenn Branca, found a recording of Joseph Byrd’s Yankee Transcendoodle and even a copy of Yoshi Wada’s Lament For The Rise And Fall Of The Elephantine Crocodile, which is really worthy of a post unto itself. There have also been a number of fantastic record covers. While I know it is a very internet thing to post nutty record covers, I couldn’t help myself and thought I would make my contribution to the glut of other funny record sites out there. I thought I’d start out subtle with Sound Waves… or not so subtle…

Sound Waves: Flipper king of the sea.

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