MOTHERS OF INVENTION - We’re Only in It for the Money (1968 Verve re) EX-/EX-
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This is a fine copy from an early (1968) U.S. repressing of the third LP by the Mothers of Invention, released earlier that year. While its predecessor, Absolutely Free, satirized straight America, this LP takes on the counterculture in songs like "Who Needs the Peace Corps?," "Absolutely Free," and "Flower Punk" (a savage rewrite of "Hey Joe"), as well as the inside cover's send up of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper. The record also finds Frank Zappa perfecting his montage production technique, realized most fully on the final track, a striking musique concréte collage entitled "The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny." The gatefold jacket has some splitting in and wear on the top seam, corner wear, light ring wear and scuffing, and light spine and bottom seam wear (EX-). The disc is clean with a little light scuffing, and plays with light surface noise (EX-).
The record when it was released was censored in several places. For those into the minutiae, I checked this copy with the list of edits on the lukpac dot org page, and found that about half of the edits were made on this copy: all the "first version" edits, and only one of the "second version" edits (the lines about mama in "Let's Make the Water Turn Black"). The letter “F” (indicating an uncensored pressing per Goldmine) is missing only from the side 2 runout matrix #s.
I’m in the process of selling off a large personal collection amassed over two decades. All discs have been stored in plastic lined inner sleeves separate from their jackets. The jackets have been stored in plastic sleeves. I have play graded (spot checked) discs except where otherwise noted.
If you'd like to order multiple items, I'll happily combine them so that you won't have to pay multiple shipping charges.
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