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Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Your ALT text is 100% accurate.

Photo of my left hand holding The Banana’s Hits LP indoors at night with the cover showing against a wooden backdrop. There’s a square, rounded sticker in the middle stating: “MADE IN THE U.K.” and a circle sticker on the upper right saying: “14 SMASH HITS INCLUDING VENUS, LOVE IN THE FIRST DEGREE, ROBERT DE NIROS WAITING, SHY BOY AND LOVE TRUTH & HONESTY”.

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

38 years ago I bought the U.S. LP for my cousin in Greece, got the CD for myself only recently and loving every bit of it.

Photo of my left hand holding the PSB ‘INTROSPECTIVE’ CD with the front cover showing clear cellophane plastic on, exposed at the opening (right) with a deck in the background outdoors during daylight. This is the 2025 repack of the 2018 remaster.

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So cool! I wish I had that album. I just came across a music video he did around the time of this album that I taped on VHS long ago. I’ve got the two ‘Hits’ albums that includes some tunes from ‘Dirty Mind’ but you’ve got gold there!

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My illustrations lately shifted toward action scenes than stationary characters. Here’s one I did this past Summer—a redo of a previous ill. I did of a Stormtrooper that appears in ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’. #ImperialPatrolTrooper #PartolTrooper #Stormtrooper #StarWars #HanSolo #Qira #AStarWarsStory

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hunted down this 12” from a then close record store a little more than a year ago. I didn’t mind the cover being beaten up so much because the record is in good shape. It echoes her life. We should have appreciated her more while she was still with us. No one could match her combo of voice & beauty.

Photo of my left hand holding the Whitney 12 inch cover with fall foliage on a wooden deck in the background.

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This was the 1st 45 I shelled out big bucks for way back in the Nineties. I wasn’t making a lot of dough at the time. I thought long and hard when I came across this in Philly at one of the record stores I frequented on South Street. No regrets and luckily I never stopped dancing to the radio since.

Photo of my left hand holding my copy of the JD 45 against a brick wall outdoors with the glossy cover showing a celestial space scene with no text.

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Agreed and ironically it ain’t a novelty.

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

K-2SO ill. by me I recently redid this past summer and posted on my Galactic Countdown tumblr. I started experimenting with doing my own handcrafted text instead of using fonts and I am not done… #illustration #RogueOne #AStarWarsStory #Andor #K-2SO #graffiti #VectorArt #SecurityDroid #CassianSaidSo

Vector portrait illustration of K-2SO by me, Alec A. Sarkas. Kay is looking in front of him toward the left. This is a three-quarters view. His coverings are reflective with a cold background that reflects on his sides. I used a K-2SO jumbo Big-Figs toy as a model for the original pencil sketch (not shown, completed 5/12/20) which I used as a template for the vector art done originally May 12, 2020 and remade June 7, 2026. My signature is in cursive across Kay's chest (to the right-hand side), “Alec A. Sarkas.” The name 'K-2SO" appears at the top of the graphic in graffiti-like letters illustrated, again, by me. There are paint drips dropping down from each letter or number.

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34 years ago after I bought this was the 1st time I decided to not completely rip off the cellophane wrap from a new record. The sticker is also proof that record companies were sick of vinyl by 1992. They might have well stuck on, “DON’T BUY THIS” + ‘Erotica’ was only on cassette and CD in the U.S.

Photo of my left hand holding the M “Erotica” 12 inch from the left side with the cover showing and a yoga mat in the background. Clear, loose cellophane covers the single with the top slightly exposed. There’s a sticker on the upper right-hand corner stating: ALSO AVAILABLE ON Compact-Disc Maxi-Single AND Cassette Maxi-Single”.

Just like yesterday. How could I have this for 39 years? Telling myself to just Breathe.

Photo of my left hand holding The Cure 12 inch from the bottom with the cover showing against a tile background.

“Everybody” bought it for the nine minute twenty-three second dub version on side two.

Photo of my left hand holding the M 12 inch copy I own with the front cover showing against cement.

The U.K. LP from Mute Records I own is catalogued with STUMM 5. Cool fact: stumm is German for mute.

Photo of my left hand holding the Depeche LP with the front cover showing. There’s dried brush in the background echoing the photo on the cover.

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That this NO platter has been serving BLT for 40 years is a Weirdo FACT. I suppose Every Little Counts All Day Long for this Way of Life As It Is When It Was a Broken Promise in an Angel Dust Paradise.

Photo of my right arm holding the NO LP like a serving platter over brush.

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Voilà! I lucked out with this used copy. Everything was pristine and only 5 bucks, back when records weren’t “cool.”

Photo of BFI poster included with “flesh for fantasy” import 12 inch single with photography by Guido Harari. Billy Idol has a sneer, eyeliner and a cross earring on (his right ear) and is holding up his left hand to his right side with a leather fingerless glove on. His bleached hair is spiked and shirt collar is up. The background of the photo is plain. A wooden floor is behind the poster.

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Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

*I … Too busy laughing at the meme to check my grammar. 🤪

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A laughed out loud seeing this because it is reality!

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don’t want to know anyone who doesn’t enjoy this song.

Photo of my left hand holding the twelve inch single of “It’s Raining Men” from The Weather Girls with crushed leaves on the ground in the background. The cover has stereotypical illustrations of men falling from the sky with umbrella silhouettes in the far background and umbrella illustrations toward the front with a repeated female illustration beneath those umbrellas.

Do picked apples need to be refrigerated?

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Running gag between me and my friends with this record is that when choosing this song from a jukebox somebody asked another friend “What’s on the other side” and they answered “I know it” which prompted the other to say “Yeah but what is it” followed again with a louder “I know it…” Jukebox heroes.

Photo of my left hand holding the Lucky Star 12 inch single with a wooden deck floor in the background. Side two is showing with the record in a plain die-cut sleeve.

My teen self did not realize both sides had exclusive edits 41 years ago. I was with my parents at some busy crowded mall and had less than minute’s time before I had to leave the record store to keep up with them. All I saw was “Angel” on the sticker label on both sides. Hunted it down years later.

My left hand holding the Angel 45 with the cover art showing (which is Madonna photographed by Herb Ritts on a beach in Hawaii) with roofing tiles in the background that have almost the same texture as the sands of Hawaii.

It has such a great groove and doesn’t bother me a bit that it’s an instrumental.

35 years ago I made the economical decision to only get the 12 inch because the CD maxi’s additional track vs. the record was the album version. That didn’t last long. Years later I got the CD maxi-single. I’m a sucker for good design and Dance music. Also, the happy family on the beach is a riot!

My left hand holding the erasure Specially-Priced Maxi-Single over a throw rug in the background. There are ‘e’ logos all over the cover and on top of the stereotypical family of three at a beach scene that looks like stock photography: the photo credit goes to The Douglas Brothers.

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Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Having the 7 track CD maxi-single was not enough for fans like me. I had to get the 12inch for the dub. Surprised 35 years later the cover still holds up with the cheaper cardboard record companies switched to. This is the front side everyone thought was the back. I’d flip it over every single time.

My left hand holding the Electronic Specially-Priced Maxi-Single with a yoga mat on a wooden floor in the background. All credits and track listings are on the front. The nice monochromatic photo of Johnny and Bernard is on the back cover along with the UPC code.

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It took me almost 43 years to find this, but that I did from a local record store. The “Holiday” 12inch single was never available in the U.S. to the public. Only DJs got the promo only copies and that is most likely what we heard played on the radio in the early ‘80s. The song still makes me dance.

Photo of my left hand holding the “Holiday” 12 inch single in sunlight with deck flooring in the background.

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Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It’s gorgeous. I hope to own a copy someday, especially now that it’s been rereleased. I almost shelled out a ton for a bootleg copy but something inside told me to wait.

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Glad you liked it! They played it on ABC tonight & saw most of it. I saw it when it was originally released at my town’s cinema with my parents in 1980. I was 10 years old and documented that I saw it in my first diary. Dolly was such a natural that it’s tough to believe it was her first movie roll.

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This song Rocks! I lucked out big time and saw Sade’s Soldier Of Love Tour. They opened with this song. Iconic!

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I did. It is such a bummer seeing folks and celebrities clinging onto FB and Insta.

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I had no idea that Madonna was considered for the female lead. Cool!

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thanks for posting more. I love it!

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

That is incredible! How lucky. And New Order’s “Confusion.” Amazing. The closest I’ve found in a Goodwill store was Yazoo’s “Only You” with no cover. I was flipping out when it said extended version, but it was the version we all know. Still, it was like 50¢! I never saw anything cool since as well.

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I have that same "Borderline" single but got it much later and after a friend mentioned the foldout poster that I had no clue existed back in 1986. Remember when 45s came and went? I tracked down a used copy in the 90s (Score!) and was so happy to find out my friend wasn't making the whole thing up.

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I knew the whole rap break in this song by heart as a kid. I did the whole rap for my parents when this came on the radio while on one of our family trips one time. I got it right!

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Gorgeous! Please post more because as Depeche sang, “I just can’t get enough…”

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Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I gotta agree with your ALT text. This is probably one of the albums I HAD to hear in high school during drafting class thanks to one of the other students in a class filled with only guys. Not my cup of tea but the hits, the cleaver cover art that replaced the original is tough to not like.

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“Dress You Up” would be the top of my list, too! Heck, it was one of the Filthy Fifteen back in the day. That right there says how good it is.

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I love, love, love this album so much. I remember buying the LP not too far from my house when it was still hot on the charts. I found and bought it on tape not too long ago but skipped buying it on CD. Vinyl sounds so much better anyway. The intro to “What Have You Done for Me Lately” is priceless❣️

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Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I missed this 26 years ago because I wasn’t onboard until she shaved her head. I used to go into record stores and scoff at her song titles because I was a musical snob. I never heard them until I haphazardly bought her first greatest hits with this on it. Lucky Rocks! You don’t know until you know.

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Got this record as soon as it was released here in the U.S. and it was on sale… 25 years ago. A quarter of a century and the songs feels as it were just released. Timeless.

Photo of my right hand holding the NO 12 inch single in sunlight against a wooden windowsill. The cover is all blank except for thick line toward the lower half of the cover leaning more toward the right side. No text appears other than stickers.

Alec Sarkas @alecsarkas.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So glad to see your station posting on here again. My feed felt lonelier for a long while there. I saw BFI in concert last Friday and he did this number. He even did the iconic fists at the end just like the video. He Rocked! Here’s my tee for proof I was there because how would we know? #BillyIdol