Post by dolt on Oct 19, 2014 22:56:15 GMT -5
Hi -
Long time collector, first post here, etc. I'm not posting this as a hoax or anything; I actually searched out and joined this site in hopes that you guys could help me figure out what I've stumbled across.
Last week, I bought a UK pressing of the Thank You LP, and along with the record itself and the poster, I found something weird inside the cover—this:
It's a CD booklet-sized piece of silver cardboard, with these images photocopied or laser-printed on to the surface (it's definitely toner, not ink). Some of the photos are different from the real album's cover (No Bowie, for instance). Stranger still, the band's name is hand-painted on to a piece of tape stuck on the front; close-up, you can see the brush textures in the paint.
I don't think this comes with every copy of the LP, but for all I know, maybe it was standard issue, as surely there weren't many copies of the LP pressed in the first place. That said, I'm guessing this is pretty unique.
I bought the LP at Amoeba Records while I was in Los Angeles for work. It's a massive record store only about 5 blocks from the Capitol Records tower, so I'm guessing Amoeba got it from someone at Capitol. Adding to that theory, it has a "For Promotion Only"-type sticker over the barcode on the back cover. The LP itself looked spotless and played like it had likely never been put on a turntable before; the poster is also in pristine shape. If you want, you can see all of the LP on my record collecting blog at vinylanswer.tumblr.com/post/100110498103/duran-durans-thank-you-an-album-of-covers-is.
My theory is that this was an art department mockup for the cover, and whoever owned the album at Capitol—perhaps the artist or an exec tied to Duran at the time who would've had the mockup and the final LP kicking around their office—threw the mockup into the LP sleeve for safekeeping.
Would anyone here have any info on what this thing might be or other theories of how it might've gotten in the LP? Thanks for any light you might be able to shed!
Long time collector, first post here, etc. I'm not posting this as a hoax or anything; I actually searched out and joined this site in hopes that you guys could help me figure out what I've stumbled across.
Last week, I bought a UK pressing of the Thank You LP, and along with the record itself and the poster, I found something weird inside the cover—this:
It's a CD booklet-sized piece of silver cardboard, with these images photocopied or laser-printed on to the surface (it's definitely toner, not ink). Some of the photos are different from the real album's cover (No Bowie, for instance). Stranger still, the band's name is hand-painted on to a piece of tape stuck on the front; close-up, you can see the brush textures in the paint.
I don't think this comes with every copy of the LP, but for all I know, maybe it was standard issue, as surely there weren't many copies of the LP pressed in the first place. That said, I'm guessing this is pretty unique.
I bought the LP at Amoeba Records while I was in Los Angeles for work. It's a massive record store only about 5 blocks from the Capitol Records tower, so I'm guessing Amoeba got it from someone at Capitol. Adding to that theory, it has a "For Promotion Only"-type sticker over the barcode on the back cover. The LP itself looked spotless and played like it had likely never been put on a turntable before; the poster is also in pristine shape. If you want, you can see all of the LP on my record collecting blog at vinylanswer.tumblr.com/post/100110498103/duran-durans-thank-you-an-album-of-covers-is.
My theory is that this was an art department mockup for the cover, and whoever owned the album at Capitol—perhaps the artist or an exec tied to Duran at the time who would've had the mockup and the final LP kicking around their office—threw the mockup into the LP sleeve for safekeeping.
Would anyone here have any info on what this thing might be or other theories of how it might've gotten in the LP? Thanks for any light you might be able to shed!