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  • 2021-09-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Alice Cooper's 'School's Out' Album Come Wrapped in Panties? (en)
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  • In September 2021, a photograph was posted to the r/mildlyinteresting section of Reddit that supposedly showed the original packaging of Alice Cooper's 1972 album School's Out that was wrapped in a pair of pink panties: The packaging for Cooper's School's Out album was created by Craig Braun, the designer who also helped make The Who‘s Tommy! and the Rolling Stone's Sticky Fingers album covers. In addition to wrapping the album in a pink pair of panties, Cooper's School's Out album also folded out into a small desk. In 2018, Braun told LongLiveVinyl.com that he tried to make the desk feel real by including images of the desk's contents, such as report cards, marbles, gum, and some student graffiti: While this album was initially released wrapped in a pair of panties, U.S. Customs officials seized nearly 500,000 copies of the album after finding that the panties fell in violation of the Flammable Fabric Act. 19 Jun 1972, Mon The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, North Carolina) Newspapers.com It's unclear how many of these albums were sold with the original paper panties dust jacket. Ashley Pandel, an official with a firm that represented Cooper, said in 1972 that about 250,000 albums packaged with the panties were sent out for distribution before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) intervened. Pandel also noted that the record company could circumvent the ban by applying a flame retardant spray to the panties. Despite thousands of records being seized, Cooper found the ban to be beneficial. In Cooper's biography, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's Life and 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict, the rock star writes: (en)
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