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An album cover that's entirely black except for the combination Spinal Tap/UPC sticker at the bottom left corner. If you haven't seen 1984's THIS IS SPINAL TAP, one of the plot points is that the fictional band Spinal Tap is about to release an album that features what Polymer publicity chief Bobbi Flekman (Fran Drescher) described as "a greased naked woman on all fours with a dog collar around her neck and a leash, and a man's arm extended out up to here holding onto the leash, and pushing a black glove in her face to sniff it." As a compromise, the album is released with a completely black cover. Of this "compromise" (which was done without the band's input), guitarist Nigel Tufnel wonders, "It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is: none. None more black."

The cover art of Spinal Tap's second record, "Break Like the Wind," which features the three main members - from left to right: Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), and Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) - standing resolute and looking off into the distance in different directions. They are shirtless. Derek is wearing snakeskin pants and has a tattoo of a devil on his exposed right arm; David has his hands on top of the pommel and hilt of a down-pointed sword and has some kind of animal skin sash going across his chest; finally, Nigel has silver, red, and black pants on, and his left hand is resting on... a similarly-colored motorcycle helmet. (Dafuq?)

The album cover for Spinal Tap's third and latest album, "The End Continues." This fetures the three main members in various sitting positions on a red sofa, and in considerably more casual dress, fitting for men of their vintage. From left to right: Nigel is in a blue denim shirt and black pants, seated on the sofa back; David is on the seat in the middle, wearing a multi-colored shirt and jeans while strumming a guitar; finally, Derek is on the seat on the right, dressed in a leather jacket, t-shirt, and black jeans. All of them have light-colored hair and are staring at the camera in various states of "Yup... this is it."

Alone on my side of the office again. That means... ALL THREE #SPINALTAP RECORDS ON FACE-MELTING #VINYL
(Alt text for those of you who don't know Spinal Tap or if you need a laugh. And if you've never seen THIS IS SPINAL TAP, get on it.)
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A collection of Spinal Tap's three vinyl albums leaned up against a door. From left: Break Like the Wind (featuring the three main band members dressed in fantasy clothing), This Is Spinal Tap (a.k.a. Smell the Glove, the one with the "None more black" cover), and Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (featuring the three main band members on a couch in more casual clothing, with David St. Hubbins sitting in the middle with a guitar). Also, there's a black cat in the foreground with his arms stretching toward the records.

When your latest vinyl order is so goddamn metal, even the cat prostrates himself...
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