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The Shaggs: They are so bad, they're popular

Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 13 June 1980

I FIRST HEARD about the Rounder label LP called The Shaggs — Philosophy of the World via a shout of outrage from my 14-year-old son — the Elwood household's first ears for new, unusual records that come our way.

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