11 Coolest Album Packages

Forget the music, the creative packaging for these records is their best part.

1. Public Image Limited: Metal Box

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As the title says, Johnny Rotten's post-Sex Pistols band put out it's 1979 record in a plain metal round box.

2. Science Vs Witchcraft: It's Not Necrophilia If You're Dead Too

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Packaged in an empty floppy disc

3. Dead Kennedys: In God We Trust, Inc

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The second side of the tape is left blank purposely to screw over the recording industry, who discouraged home taping.

4. Spiritualized: Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space (Special Edition)

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The medicine-pack inspired packaging contained 12 separate mini-CDs (remember those?), one for each track. Each mini-disc popped out of a pill-style blister pack.

5. The Durutti Column: Return of the Durutti Column

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The cover of this Factory Records release was entirely sandpaper, designed to scratch and destroy the album cover of whatever sat next to it on the shelf.

6. The Misfits: The Mistfits

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Appropriately, a coffin-shaped box set.

7. The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers

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Designed by Andy Warhol, the cover featured a working zipper. The photo is not of Mick Jagger, as is often assumed, but of one of Warhol's models.

8. Lemonade: Pure Moods

This release from True Panther Sounds is available on a working USB rubber bracelet.

9. Alice Cooper: School's Out

A flip-top desk revealed

10. John Lennon and Yoko Ono: Wedding Album

A play on the word "album", it contained a replica marriage certificate, a photo of their wedding cake, and other wedding related items.

11. The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico

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Early editions had a special sticker of the Andy Warhol banana print that users could peel back.