What Goes Around . . .

They appear at thrift stores and garage sales: battered LPs with titles like “How to Strip for Your Husband,” “Music for Big Dame Hunters” and “Muhammad Ali Fights Mr. Tooth Decay.”

Now records like these have been immortalized in “Incredibly Strange Music, Volume One,” a book from Re/Search Publications in San Francisco.

Andrea Juno and V. Vale, the book’s editors, are passionate about their love of garage sale albums. “We have a campaign against taste of any kind--good or bad,” says Vale. “We don’t judge people for liking their eggs sunny side up rather than scrambled. So why judge someone as CC--Culturally Correct?”

“Incredibly Strange Music” is the 14th installment in a series on offbeat topics. Since its beginning as a tabloid fanzine, Re/Search has carved out a niche as an excavator of the unusual and the overlooked.

Since 1980, Juno and Vale have written and edited books on such topics as sadomasochism, “creative crime and interesting criminals,” and the prank as an art form. Their most popular work, 1991’s “Angry Women,” a collection of interviews with feminist artists, has sold 60,000 copies.

“Incredibly Strange Music” is selling briskly in L.A., and volume two is due out next year, featuring interviews with the likes of Rusty Warren, the red-headed queen of 1950s “party albums.”

“If you can dismantle your prejudices and get out of the stranglehold of good taste, “ explains Juno, “there are a ton of things to excavate.”

Ready for ‘80s Nostalgia?

Think ‘70s nostalgia is the latest thing? Think again.

Signs of an incipient ‘80s revival are on the horizon, and the terminally hip are already pulling out their copies of “Purple Rain” and pulsing up their Pac-Man skills.

The quintessential ‘80s band Duran Duran is on the charts with a new album, and when the group played a concert last weekend at Tower Records in West Hollywood, thousands of fans showed up.

Boy George is also on the comeback trail with his single “The Crying Game”--his biggest American hit in years.

There’s more. In New York City, a club called USA is packing in Manhattanites with authentic ‘80s music and attitude.

And here in L.A., Billy Limbo, creator of Club 1970, has begun a new weekly club, 1984.

Presenting music described as “after disco and before rave,” 1984 is the place to dance to sonic artifacts by Men at Work and Eurythmics.

It takes place Wednesday nights in that most ‘80s of locations: Beverly Hills.

Format Suits Him to a T

And speaking of ‘80s revivals, Mr. T is returning as, appropriately enough, a comic book character. Beginning in June, the former “A Team” co-star, who is described in his press-release bio as “uniquely ominous (yet huggable) and bejeweled,” will be featured in his own full-color, 32-page monthly comic.

Regarding the huggabilty factor, if the comic has just one full-color panel re-creating that classic photo of Nancy Reagan sitting on Mr. T’s lap, its status as a collectible is assured.