The Final Nights of Paradise (5 Disc Bootleg Set)

New York: Garage Records, [2009]. Ghosting from original price sticker to front cover of first volume, with some offsetting to pink screenprint, else a near fine set of the sleeves. With a few minor scratches to the vinyl, else also near fine.. Five 12" vinyl LPs in silkscreened sleeves. Complete set of this desirable bootleg, commemorating Michael Brody's legendary New York dance club Paradise Garage (1977-1987). Featuring a recording of resident DJ Larry Levan's epic set from the club's final weekend in September 1987. A series of anonymous reminiscences are screenprinted to the versos of the sleeves, with an unauthorized reproduction of Keith Haring's (truncated) holy portrait of Levan screenprinted in various colors to rectos; the image originally created by Haring for the DJ's 1986 birthday party at the club. In his journals, following the Garage's closing, Haring wrote: "It's like losing a lover when everything was going just fine. (Inventory #: 24899)