Tom Tom Club - Self Titled

It was second year uni 2003. The new chicks on speed album had come out and I was excited. I was listening to lots of that electro punk/clash stuff then. I won a vinyl copy through the local street press dB magazine. I think it was just one of those ring us up we've got 5 copies or something. Anyway, I walked up to their office on Hindly Street. Andrew P. Street who worked there at the time was enthusiastically talking to me about the record. But what I mostly remember him saying was - "they do an excellent cover of Tom Tom Club's Wordy Rappinghood". I nodded not wanting to look like an idiot. I went home, dialled up my internet when mum got off the phone and looked up Tom Tom Club. 

I think I picked this up at a record fair. This is one of my favourite album covers. Inside the cover is a stamp from Umbrella Music which use to be a record store on the corner of Rundle Street and Frome Adelaide. 

Everytime I spin this record I remember how much I love it.

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