Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (original cover) w/ poster

$

55

The original (and subsequently withdrawn..) release on I.R.S. records - catalog number 70014. Later releases featured a black cover. 
From Wikipedia: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Early IRS pressings featured the cover tinted orange with black lettering. This cover variation was not authorized by the band. According to a late-80s interview with Goldmine magazine, IRS told the band they wanted to make the domestic version different from the Cherry Red import, to which Biafra claimed to have told IRS, "Yeah, inferior to the original — change it back!" During a 1981 performance at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., Biafra mentions, "Some of you stooped so low as to buy our wonderful album, even with the shitty Disneyland orange cover which was not our idea." The original back cover featured a found photograph of an old lounge band called the Sounds of Sunshine, with the Dead Kennedys' logo pasted onto the drum kit and skulls and crossbones spliced onto their instruments. The original photograph, as found by Biafra at a garage sale, had no identifying remarks on it whatsoever, and was used because the band thought it was "hilarious". Somehow Warner Wilder, the former vocalist of the defunct lounge band learned of the photo and threatened to sue the Dead Kennedys. The back cover was reprinted with the heads of the band members cut off, but this solution was found to be unsatisfactory to the Sounds of Sunshine, forcing an entirely different photo of four old ladies in a living room (with the Alternative Tentacles bat mascot pasted over a picture frame).When Cleopatra Records reissued Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables in 2002, the original unbeheaded lounge band picture reappeared. The 25th Anniversary "Deluxe Reissue" co-released by Cherry Red Records and Manifesto Records in 2005 used the old ladies photograph, but with the Dead Kennedys logo substituted for the Alternative Tentacles Bat."
Grading: I am going by the Goldmine grading system, more information here: Goldmine Record Grading  The vinyl is in excellent shape, I would rank it as EX. The cover is in very good shape with no seam splits or writing but there is some mild ring wear on the front side. (See photos..) I would rank it as EX. Includes the original unused poster. (Never pinned to a wall etc..with no rips or writing) Feel free to ask any questions. 

The shipping price includes insurance and tracking. Unfortunately, given the weight of the shipping box, it would not be economical to ship it out of the United States.