A “Jack Chick tract”-style mini paper catalog from Portland, OR-based label Imp Records, circa 1994.
If you are not familiar with Chick tracts, I encourage you to read the Wikipedia article, then check out digitized versions of some in this archive.
If the stylized cover of this Imp Records catalog already looks familiar, then you probably have seen a Chick tract: a small, black-and-white booklet containing an evangelical morality tale meant to scare, shock and convert the wretched unbeliever. They provided eye-rolling entertainment due to the extreme views and implausibly goofy scenarios presented in each story.
And of course these booklets were also ripe for parody, as seen here in the center image. Woman in distress on the cover a Jackknife single? Well, just “12 days later” is is jumping for joy: “Wow! I feel great! Stomping all night!”
Even though I have this catalog, I am pretty sure I bought the label’s releases—including the Spinanes 7″ shown here—independent of these marketing enticements.
