🧪 Announcing our October ROTMs!

🎸 Announcing the VMP ROCK Track. Secure your spot today

📢 VMP Announces New Audiophile-Grade Vinyl Pressing Plant. Read more
Hear what's On Rotation at VMP this week

❤️ Celebrate 10 years with us! Join, reactivate, or renew and get up to 8 bonus records!

Vinyl Me, Please
VMP Exclusive Pressing
Zoom Icon
Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease
*Actual vinyl color and effect may slightly differ from mockup.

Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease

Heins-Hoffman Richter (a.k.a. Rod McKuen)

Hein-Hoffman Richter (a.k.a. Rod McKuem)'s Music to Freak your Friends and Break Your Lease is available on exclusive Antifreeze Green vinyl.
View More Details
This product is in your Wishlist Save to Wishlist

IN-STOCK: Ships free for members. Other shipping options available at checkout.

Nutrition Facts

VMP Exclusive Pressing

This is a VMP Exclusive record, and you can't get this specific variation anywhere else.

Exclusive Features

color Antifreeze Green
foil stamped Yes
numbered Yes

Other Features

exclusive VMP Exclusive
jacket style Direct-To-Board
jacket type Single
label Real Gone
mastering engineer Mike Milchnter
mastering studio Sonic Vision Mastering
pressing location Gotta Groove Records
release type Reissue

By the Numbers

1LP

format

1974

original release year

331/3
RPM

speed

300

total pressing quantity

12
inch

vinyl size

standard

weight

Description

Upon its initial release in 1974, this “Symphony for Tape Delay, IBM Instruction Manual, & Ohm Septet” was credited to “recognized raconteur, genius, composer, musicologist, conductor” Heins Hoffman-Richter, whom the original liner notes blithely inform us, “died from an ear lobe tumor.” It turns out that the late Hoffman-Richter was none other than best-selling poet and all-time cult music hero Rod McKuen. Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease is Rod McKuen’s very own Metal Machine Music. He immersed himself in musique concrète, or music which utilizes recorded sounds as raw material, for the most unusual album in his vast discography. Like Lou Reed’s later experiment in feedback and noise, Freak Your Friends features no songs or traditionally structured compositions…but it just might scare off those candy-hungry kiddies on your doorstep with its Moog-tastic mayhem! Simply put, this wild journey through the electronic underground has to be heard to be believed…and this is its first-ever reissue.

Limited to 300 copies, the VMP exclusive version of Heins-Hoffman Richter (a.k.a. Rod McKuen)'s Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease is pressed on Antifreeze Green vinyl at Gotta Groove Records. The 1LP will arrive in a single, direct-to-board, foil-stamped and numbered jacket with a download code. It was mastered by Mike Milchnter at Sonic Vision Mastering.

Categories

Tracklist

LP 1 / Side A

1
1st Movement
2
2nd Movement

LP 1 / Side B

1
3rd Movement
2
4th Movement

Categories

Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease
Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease
Heins-Hoffman Richter
This product is in your Wishlist Save to Wishlist

IN-STOCK: Ships free for members. Other shipping options available at checkout.

Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease

Heins-Hoffman Richter

Perfect Pairings

Low Stock Sale New This Week VMP Exclusive Pressing

${ product.title }

${ product.artist_title }

More Music, Less Stress

text-1

Join the club for more perks.

VMP members receive our exclusive Records of the Month and special access to other limited titles. Starting at $33/month. Check it out

text-2

We’ll make it right.

Should the unspeakable happen and you receive a damaged record, we’ll do everything in our power to address it. Learn more about our Damage + Return policy

categories
Genre
Collections
Hmm, no results for this search. Try again or browse the store .

Shop

${ product.title }

${ product.vendor }
Shop the store

Magazine

${ _formatArticleDate(article.published_at) }
${ article.title }
Read More
on the vmp magazine

Pages

${ page.title }
Vinyl Me, Please
Shopping Cart

Your cart is currently empty.

Continue Browsing
Other Customers Bought

Subtotal

Shipping & taxes calculated at checkout

View Cart Proceed to Checkout Checkout
MAKE THIS A GIFT ORDER
Free shipping for members IconFree shipping for members
Safe & secure checkout IconSafe & secure checkout
International shipping IconInternational shipping
Quality guarantee IconQuality guarantee