Vinyl Record Covers => Board Game

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1. John Nielson on 07.04.2010 at 11:21

   I have an old Flipper live album from 1986, “Public Flipper Limited,” that also works as a board game. The sleeve can be converted to a board; the package also includes a sheet of counters as well as a cut-out spinner.

   Sometimes people are so clueless, they have no idea how unoriginal they are. Another weird layer on the onion: the Flipper record I’m talking about is called “Public Flipper Limited” because Public Image Limited blatantly lifted Flipper’s generic album cover idea (compare the covers of Flipper’s 1982 release “Generic” to to P.i.L’s 1985 release “Album/Compact Disc/Cassette”).

   *head explodes*

2. John Nielson on 07.04.2010 at 11:33

   It gets worse:

   So I just read that the Girl in a Coma board game describes the tour life. So does the Flipper board game. Considering their name is a paraphrase of the title of a classic 80’s alt-rock song (you know, like calling your band She’s a Sex Bomb or something), they’re not clueless. Maybe they’re just plagiarists. Lame!

   How many more bands are going to take their names from Smiths songs, anyway?

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