Bootleg copy of the 1988 album by The Sugarcubes, Life’s Too Good, as lovingly handcrafted by me.
For a fellow denizen of the suburban wasteland known as Acton, Massachusetts, my friend Dan had very cool taste in music. While he was a year ahead of me, we were fellow theatre nerds and met through our participation in the school’s drama club. Just as I started getting into so-called “alternative” music in my freshman year of high school, Dan introduced me Depeche Mode, Siouxsie & the Banshees and... The Sugarcubes.
He lent me his cassette of the band’s debut album, of which I quickly made my own copy. Not content with a plain, black-and-white photocopy of the sleeve, I attempted to replicate the full-color artwork using green and pink highlighter pens plus some white-out solution. I was pretty proud of my DIY effort.
The only odd thing here was that, according to the label on the cassette itself, I must have skipped over track 10 when taping this. Unless I omitted it to fit the album onto one side? I have no idea.
