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RAYMOND PETTIBON (1957- )
Sonic Youth Live / Palladium / Goo. Offset lithograph poster on yellow paper. 912x610 mm, 36x24 inches. 1990. For the concert at the Hollywood Palladium on August 17, 1990, Nirvana and STP opened for Sonic Youth.
Released at the end of June, 1990, "Goo" was Sonic Youth's 6th full length album. The cover art included the caption, "I stole my sister's boyfriend. It was all whirlwind, heat and flash. Within a week we killed my parents and hit the road," which does not appear on the poster.
Pettibon's imagery helped define the punk aesthetic. Black Flag was founded by his brother as was the record label SST for whom Raymond did a lot of work. The MoMA magazine writes that "It's safe to say that Goo represents the apotheosis of Pettibon's career" (Jason Persse, 2020).
