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TIL the title for Guns N'Roses classic 1987 album “Appetite For Destruction” comes from its original cover art, a surrealist painting by Robert Williams which “depicted a robotic rapist about to be punished by a metal avenger.” The cover was replaced after stores refused to stock it.

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