![]() “I also pass on defacement that is only radio station call letters, unless they have good placement. “Covers with only names written on them don’t make the cut,” he says. While he’s always looking for cleverly modified covers, he does have standards. After that initial discovery, Wooten began purposefully seeking out defaced records. “Someone had added hand-drawn rows of joints and pot leaves all over the brown bag outer sleeve,” he recalls over email. Wooten explains that his fascination with artfully vandalized records began with a copy of Jefferson Airplane’s Bark, discovered at L.A.’s Amoeba Music about five years ago. Wooten’s new art book, Marred for Life, is a curated slice of his massive collection of defaced records, featuring covers with additions and alterations ranging from blacked-out eyeballs to commentary like “sexist cover” (on a copy of Bow Wow Wow’s The Last of the Mohicans). Los Angeles-based collector and musician Greg Wooten digs for distinctly imperfect records. Most vinyl fiends hunt that perfect, elusive gem. ![]()
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