Cardboard Compulsion

Record collecting included a compulsion to keep the mailers they were sent in. Here they are, along with the stories behind them.

Thursday, August 11, 2005

Half Japanese - Music To Strip By

(c) Henry Yu 2005
50 Skidillion Watts was Magician Penn Jillette's late 80's rescucitation of Half-Japanese' (or the Fair brothers') original record label from a decade earlier. While I had ordered several of their releases, I believe this mailer housed a red vinyl edition (of 100 or so, if memory serves me right) of the Half Japanese - Music To Strip By LP, autographed by Jad himself. Another notable release on the revitalized label was Moe Tucker's second solo LP, called "MoeJadKateBarry" which also saw a limited autographed version. Aesthetically speaking, I was happier in the pre-Skidillion days when Jad and David actually typed out all the entire Skidillion, with all the "0's" and commas.

Anyone out there remember exactly how much a Skidillion was ?