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I saw noise bands The New Blockaders with the Haters a few years ago and remember reading about a 1983 release by The Haters that was an unpressed 7" packaged with a razor blade so you could scratch in your own grooves. The inner read "Listen to the scratches". Obviously that's ridiculous but I think it's an interesting notion. It's firmly in the performance art end of things as opposed to actual recorded music but still I think it's pretty cool.

 

Do you know of any other things like this? Even stuff like removable centre labels (likeon Lazaretto?), or more extreme stuff like the example above.

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Christian Marclay has done a lot of stuff along these lines. My favorite is Record Without a Cover. It was sold without a jacket, and the etching on the B side says "do not store in a protective package".

He also pressed 1000 LPs with field recordings of footsteps and tap dancing, then laid them out on a gallery floor as an art exhibition:

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Then sold them with footprints and everything.

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https://fatherfigures.bandcamp.com/album/bad-bad-birds-ep

Father Figures' Bad Bad Birds EP.
The USBeak Deluxe Edition is a handmade bird head with a USB tongue.
Plus, the band is pretty awesome.
Adam Schatz from FFs is also in Landlady and Man Man.
Ten bucks, Cheap!  cheap, cheap cheap.
Get it?!?!

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