Public Image Ltd: Metal Box

No, you're right, I didn't get this when it came out, when I was 14. But about ten years later, I realised that the original was valuable and would only become more so. So I got this second-hand copy from Record Collector in Broomhill for £15 (the little white sticker you can see in the picture says "15 MM"). And another ten years after that I recorded those six sides onto mini-disc to avoid having to extract them from the canister and keep turning over the records every ten minutes.

It sounds kind of weird in hindsight. Both bravely minimalist (who would dare do an album like this nowadays? PJ Harvey, maybe, but few others), yet strangely inconsequential, notwithstanding those who sought to imitate.

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