Fela Anikulapo Kuti- Expensive Shit - Vinyl LP
  $   79

 


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Sep 4, 2025 Sold Date
Aug 28, 2025 Start Date
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Fela Anikulapo Kuti - Expensive Shit - Vinyl LP

This is the original album on the Makossa Records label from 1981.

Considered one of Fela Kuti’s masterpieces and a cornerstone Afrobeat record. Includes Expensive Shit and Water No Get Enemy.

Album cover is in excellent shape with wear on the front and back cover.

Shipping is $5.25 which is the cost of USPS media mail. I will combine shipping. It looks like the shipping cost goes up by $1.50 for every record added. (That’s using eBay to generate the USPS shipping label.)

I always handled my records properly and used a Discwasher before playing them.

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EDIT: Found this via ChatGPT which I find hilarious: 

The title Expensive Shit comes from a notorious real-life incident:

  • The Nigerian police planted a joint on Fela in order to arrest him.

  • Fela quickly swallowed the joint before they could use it as evidence.

  • The police detained him until he produced stool samples, hoping to find the marijuana.

  • Fela managed to substitute another inmate’s clean feces for his own, tricking the police.

  • He was released without charge.

  • The event inspired the biting, satirical song and album title — Expensive Shit.

It’s a perfect example of how Fela used his music to confront corruption, repression, and everyday struggles under Nigeria’s military regime.



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