Pilz Button

1.5" diameter button

From Wikipedia:

"Pilz (German for ‘mushroom’) was a German record label, set up in Berlin in 1971 by German music mogul Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser, who also established the label Ohr.

Kaiser continued to issue albums by Walter Wegmüller and Sergius Golowin, but got into trouble when he started releasing albums under the name of the Cosmic Jokers, a supergroup made up of artists who did not even realise they were participating in such a project: Kaiser had taken recordings of informal jams by various artists from the label and had released them under the Cosmic Jokers name without their knowledge. The musicians affected – and in particular Klaus Schulze – were far from impressed with Kaiser's release of this material and took legal action. Wallenstein accused him of unpaid royalties, while Tangerine Dream and Hoelderlin were wary of his affinity for Leary. As a result of this and negative press attention, Kaiser's contracts with his bands were voided by the German courts, thus spelling the end for the Cosmic Couriers label. The last album he had released was Einsjäger und Siebenjäger by Popol Vuh in 1974."

Presented here, in the spirit of Kaiser's lack of permission, is a bootleg pin of his legendary label.

Profits from these will be donated to Movement for Black Lives (M4BL).