Tad - 8-way Santa - Released February 15, 1991

This is their second studio release.

At first glance, this is a fairly innocuous album cover, maybe a little crude, but it would appear that the couple is married and if she's fine with a casual grope for posterity then we should be too, right?

Well the problem is that Tad and Subpop did not secure the rights to the image.  As Tad's front man, Tad Doyle told Vice Magazine in 2016, " We had a friend who had gotten a photo album at a thrift store and we were at a party with her and we said, Hey, can we look at those? Kurt Danielson and I started looking through these photos of these people's lives and that one in particular was pretty cool, so we asked if we could have a couple of them? However, when you get photos at a thrift store in an album, you're not going to consider that somebody's really going to give a crap about them."

Unfortunately, in this particular instance, someone did give a crap and that person was Patricia Rogers, the woman in the photo resting a tired boob in the good samaritans hand. That Good Samaritan was her ex-husband, Kimball Webber and Patricia says she saw the album cover when she was reading reviews in Spin magazine.

After they divorced, Patricia became a born again Christian about a year before this album was released. As you can imagine, she was none too happy to see this pop up in her magazine and the concern that her new group of friend might judge her, including her new husband!

There seems to be some discrepancies as to how picture made it to a thrift store.  She argued that it was stolen from a garage sale.  She Sued the band and Sub-Pop, a virtually unknown record label at the time.  She won and was offered a $2.500 settlement or an ownership stake in the indy label.  Because of her religious believes at the time, she took the $2500 payment which was dolled out in monthly checks of $25!  one can only imagine what that ownership stake would have been worth now!

Patricia's sister, Linda Faccone believes before her death in 2016 that Patricia may have wanted a copy of the album for her own enjoyment.  This was after she divorced her second husband and the embarrassment had faded a little. 

The cover was changed to a band photo.