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JANIS JOPLIN
"BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY"
~CHEAP THRILLS~

Cheap Thrills is the second album from  and their last with  as primary lead vocalist. In 2003, the album was ranked #338 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.Big Brother obtained a considerable amount of attention after their 1967 performance at the  and had released their  soon after. Cheap Thrills was a great success, hitting #1 on the charts for eight nonconsecutive weeks in 1968. Columbia Records offered the band a new recording contract, but it took months to get through since they were still signed to Mainstream Records.The album features three cover songs ("Summertime", "Piece of My Heart" and "Ball and Chain"). The album also features Bill Graham, who introduces the band at the beginning of "Combination of the Two". "Ball and Chain" is the only song on the album recorded entirely live, and even though the cover credits assert that the live material was recorded at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium, it was actually taken from a concert at the Winterland Ballroom in 1968. The album's overall raw sound effectively captures the band's energetic and lively concerts. The LP was released in both stereo and mono formats with the monophonic pressing now a rare collector's item.The cover was drawn by   after the band's original cover idea, a picture of the group naked in bed together, was dropped by the record company. Crumb had originally intended his art for the LP back cover, with a portrait of Janis Joplin to grace the front. But Joplin—an avid fan of underground comics, especially the work of Crumb—so loved the Cheap Thrills illustration that she demanded Columbia Records place it on the front cover. It is number nine on's list of one hundred greatest album covers.

In at least one early edition, the words "HARRY KRISHNA! (D. GETZ)" are faintly visible in the word balloon of the turbaned man, apparently referring to a track that was dropped from the final sequence. The words "ART: R. CRUMB" replace them.

Initially, the album was to be called Sex, Dope and Cheap Thrills, but the title was not received well by Columbia Records.

A variation of the title on the cover is used as the logo for the Cheap Thrills record label, owned by British DJ .

Identification Marked on Cover  PC 9700 Marked on Label  PC 9700 Etched in runout side 1  XSM 137375-1F  AS
Condition Vinyl is visually graded NM- with no usage marks Labels are NM Cover is VG++ with a clean glossy front R.Crumb Artwork, lite age fade on white,  beginning shelf/ring/edge wear, lite creases along strong spline, soft corner

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