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Classic album artwork as postage stamps

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 14:42
by Quiff Boy
from the telegraph

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10 new stamps, available from next Thursday, include:

The Clash's London Calling (bottom left),
Pink Floyd’s The Division Bell (top left),
Coldplay’s A Rush of Blood to the Head (top middle),
Primal Scream’s Screamadelica,
Blur’s Parklife (top right),
New Order’s Power, Corruption and Lies,
the Stones’ Let It Bleed,
Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells (bottom middle),
Led Zeppelin’s fourth (untitled) album (bottom right),
and Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.

Purveyors of some of rock and roll’s greatest licks — now ready to be licked.

More information at www.royalmail.com

kinda cool 8) :lol:

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 15:40
by Silver_Owl
I want the Power, Corruption & Lies one.
Quiff - can you send me a letter? ;D

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 15:47
by Quiff Boy
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link to royal mail site: http://is.gd/5O8JY
Classic Album Covers Stamp Set

Each of these pristine stamps features an album cover that is as culturally significant as the music that it was designed to represent. These include David Bowie, Pink Floyd and Coldplay.

£3.90

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 15:59
by Norman Hunter
Coldplay and Blur? FFS :?

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 16:23
by James Blast
Division Bell!?

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 16:29
by Silver_Owl
James Blast wrote:Division Bell!?
Maybe it's the Storm cover they like rather than the content. :)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 16:34
by James Blast
it would have to be but think how striking a DSOTM stamp would've been

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 16:41
by Pista
I was thinking an Animals stamp tbh

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 16:41
by Silver_Owl
James Blast wrote:it would have to be but think how striking a DSOTM stamp would've been
Correct. Or Meddle. :wink:

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 16:45
by EvilBastard
DSOTM would have been good, The Wall would have been great, and then again there's Keef's Favourite Album Of All Time... :innocent:

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Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 22:21
by MadameButterfly
I thiink a calender with the sexiest babes on HL for every month would sell better, hey but that's just me! :innocent:

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 22:24
by Silver_Owl
MadameButterfly wrote:I thiink a calender with the sexiest babes on HL for every month would sell better, hey but that's just me! :innocent:
Did you not receive the Hom Corleone 2010 topless calender? I sent it way before Xmas. :roll:

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 22:26
by MadameButterfly
Hom_Corleone wrote:
MadameButterfly wrote:I thiink a calender with the sexiest babes on HL for every month would sell better, hey but that's just me! :innocent:
Did you not receive the Hom Corleone 2010 topless calender? I sent it way before Xmas. :roll:
:eek: No I haven't received anything from the island!

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 22:29
by James Blast
so, there's only two months in 2010, I need to know? :lol:

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 22:31
by MadameButterfly
:lol: Don't jinx the world James, it's the coldest winter in how many years?

:wink:

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 22:41
by James Blast
what calendar are we using?

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 22:43
by Petseri
EvilBastard wrote:DSOTM would have been good, The Wall would have been great, and then again there's Keef's Favourite Album Of All Time... :innocent:

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I think that I see Detroit!

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 22:51
by MadameButterfly
James Blast wrote:what calendar are we using?
the babes of hl one! :wink:

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 23:03
by Silver_Owl
James Blast wrote:what calendar are we using?
Mine features a different trouser for each month; Corduroy one month, Farrah slacks the next, a bit of plus 4 action...you get the idea.

It's selling very well thank you. :|

Posted: 06 Jan 2010, 23:05
by MadameButterfly
Hom_Corleone wrote:
James Blast wrote:what calendar are we using?
Mine features a different trouser for each month; Corduroy one month, Farrah slacks the next, a bit of plus 4 action...you get the idea.

It's selling very well thank you. :|
Well I can't judge either! :|

Posted: 11 Jan 2010, 23:55
by pikkrong
Floodland and Unknown Pleasures would be nice. Still, a good idea. Who wants to be my Pen-friend? :)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010, 21:50
by MadameButterfly
pen-friend? oh go on then i'm willing!

which calendar are we on about? :innocent:

Posted: 13 Jan 2010, 00:05
by Debaser
What about a calendar of collenders. This little bruiser could be January

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