'huge, queer and tawdry' but 'much admired by the public'

I buy a lot of tat in charity shops but find it very hard to buy any book (or CD for that matter) that has writing on, in particular personal greetings. Part of me is angry at the person for essentially defacing art. Another part of just feels uncomfortable with how personal it feels.....it's as if, reading the greeting, you're intruding in someone's life. If someone ever wrote in a book that was a present for me, once I'd got over my anger with the scrawl, I'd find it terribly difficult to give away, even if the book was rubbish.

Talking charity shops and 90s indie....the other day I saw a Fluffy CD in Oxfam. (Viewing the cover, I was surprised at how aesthetically boring they were).