Record Covers Part 1

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How many pieces of plastic garbage have been sold by the cover alone. Get some skimpy dressed girl on the front and bobs your uncle the gullible record buyer will lap it up and buy the fantasy. So how did punk affect this shameless exploitation of women? The answer is it didn't. Look at these  two scans of a variety of albums scanned from the Sex & Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll book published by Omnibus many years ago and tell me if you didn't know which were the punk albums could you tell by the cover ?