1.15.2004

The mystery of Mingering Mike: A flea market troller in Washington DC, posting his experience on a forum at Soulstrut.com, tells of an amazing find: "35 or 40 hand-drawn and hand-painted album covers made between 1969 and 1976, some complete with fake cardboard records inside them. Apparently some guy who called himself "Mingering Mike" put together all of these albums as if he were the musician... the covers are complete with hand-drawn barcodes, track listings, lyrics, drawings of the band(s), and in some cases, liner notes. He did soul and funk albums and blaxploitation soundtracks (for movies that never existed), and even a Christmas album!" (Via BoingBoing.)

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