ALICE COOPER Love It To Death (Extremely rare 1971 French 9-track LP pressed by Pathé Marconi, released long before the band reached the main public consciousness in the mid seventies. Even in those early days the band caused controversy by the inclusion of a strategically placed thumb on the cover art of the front laminated gatefold picture sleeve, causing it to be swiftly withdrawn & replaced with a version less open to mis-interpretation, with the offending thumb [& indeed the whole of his right arm] removed. Copies on Straight are very hard to find now, because just a year later the album was re-issued by Warner Brothers. There are actually four different versions of the front cover art now [2009] but this is the very first. Later issues on Straight & Warner Brothers were all censored. Apart from being a very fine album indeed, the first overseen by Bob Ezrin, this copy is in amazing condition. This copy has come from the RTL Radio Reference Library & has been stamped & stickered on the back & labels to that effect, consequently the vinyl has been carefully handled from new & remains near mint despite being nearly forty years old. You will be unlikely to ever find a better French copy than this!)