Yes, We have the White Album.
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Helter Skelter! A Record Store that Only Stocks the White Album A project of New York and Shanghai-based Rutherford Chang, We Buy White Albums includes nearly 700 copies of the 1968 double-LP first edition of the White Album. At the conclusion of the show, all the hundreds of versions of “Helter Skelter,” “Back in the U.S.S.R.,” and other transcendental-fueled tracks from the landmark album will be combined into one that captures all the scratches and dust of the worn records. From this, Chang will press a new double-LP, with its cover art also a composite of all the played records.
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Looks like this is over, as it's not on the art gallery's website anymore.
posted by SansPoint at 1:52 PM on July 31, 2015
posted by SansPoint at 1:52 PM on July 31, 2015
will be combined into one that captures all the scratches and dust of the worn records.
Christian Marclay ... white courtesy telephone ...
posted by octobersurprise at 1:52 PM on July 31, 2015
Christian Marclay ... white courtesy telephone ...
posted by octobersurprise at 1:52 PM on July 31, 2015
Yeah I don't quite get the significance of this project. I love The Beatles as much as any fanatic and the White Album may be my favorite of their studio albums. But original 1968 copies of the album are not rare or expensive. I think I have two of them with all the original goodies. I can listen to the scratches and dust anytime I want, or listen to the new remastered mono or stereo vinyl if I wish.
I guess I just don't get the artistic intention of this.
posted by WhitenoisE at 1:53 PM on July 31, 2015
I guess I just don't get the artistic intention of this.
posted by WhitenoisE at 1:53 PM on July 31, 2015
And all the copies are on vinyl - no cassettes? This degenerate "art" corrupts the young and will be the death of our society. I call on New York and Shanghai-based Rutherford Chang to immediately record an apology on Side A of a TDK D-60 cassette and to leave Side B blank for any future apologies by said artist.
posted by the quidnunc kid at 1:53 PM on July 31, 2015
posted by the quidnunc kid at 1:53 PM on July 31, 2015
"Do you have anything by Robert Ludlum?"
"GET OUT."
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 1:54 PM on July 31, 2015
"GET OUT."
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 1:54 PM on July 31, 2015
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