I don’t like to say: “Buy this record!” but… this band is definitely worth the cover price ($4.50 on iTunes US).

via weekendrecords:

The Flying Lizards - Her Story (1979)

Experimental British “pop” group led by producer David Cunningham and joined by a loose collective of avant-garde personnel on instruments and vocals, most notably journalist and reggae/postpunk musician Vivien Goldman. Aside from the well-known, emotionless hit covers, the debut album also contains two wonderful songs written and sung by Goldman, including “The Window” and “Her Story”, which also contains a line that inspired the Public Image Limited single about bands selling out their artistic principles for commercial success - “This Is Not A Love Song” from 1983 (“But you can still make money, by singing sweet songs of love… this is a love song”). Ironically, it gave PiL their biggest international hit single.

I play a lot of old, out of print music. If there isn’t a way to procure a legal, new copy (physical or digital), I will download a copy to play on my show (especially if it’s a vinyl rip). Luckily, we have a pretty good collection at WMBR that I can pull from, and there’s a healthy amount of older music available from Amazon MP3, eMusic, and iTunes.