I
don't think there would ever be a problem of getting hold of the generic in
house sleeve, but to run off an extra 100 on a 250 batch would be near
impossible. What tends to happen is that there is either pare vinyl after a
run, or a run is cut short but a few, this is wear the pressing plant guys get
to work.
Your
always going to have spare sleeves and labels around. But in the case of a while
label, no problem, just pop it into an in house sleeve. So many boots, are only
really boots as they are not officially counted in the pressing run. I.e
250 92 promo 3's, with 5 run of by the pressing plant.
If
that's the case though - then how would you know whether a record is really
rare or not? Let's say someone did this after the alleged run of 250 KLF
92 PROMO 3's so there are actually another 100 (for example) out there which
were run off illegally. Assuming whoever did this had access to 100 KLF
company sleeves (conceivable as they would have been shipped to the pressing
plant) - you'd never know if you had one of the first 250 (i.e. 'genuine') or
last 100 (i.e. 'extra') pressings. Given this, surely you'd have to
treat all of the pressings as genuine?
Yes, there are usualy extra labels in case of problems. This is why
you see ex pressing plant employess with about half a dozen "rare" items.
Most of the time they have done them thereself and reep the benifits
from collectors when they sell them off.
Just take a look at Queen. Some of there "run offs" go into thousands
of pounds.
That would explain it. Although the 5TOTP coloured/clear
pressing I have are fully labelled up - would the workers have access to
the labels (usually these are ordered in the same quantity as the pressing
run?) as well?
Its often quite common for pressing plant workers to "knock"
off some pressings at the end of a run, say of 1000. That's why you
see clear and coloured vinyl. all down to the employees of the plant. It
was quite a common occurrence. FGTH have many coloured, clear vinyl
pressings.
I've got a mustard KLF5TOTP 7" - it's actually more 'tangerine
orange' than mustard though. I've also got the clear version and
a test pressing of it as well. I've also heard mention that only
the black one is the genuine article and that the coloured (and clear)
ones were pressed up by someone else. If that's true though,
they must have had access to the plates as the markings on the
run-outs are identical in all cases (and clear vinyl is quite
expensive to press up?). I've also heard there were some blue
versions of the 7" pressed - anyone know anything about
these?
Chris
In a message dated 12/01/2005 16:39:31 GMT
Standard Time, ghostie_inc@hotmail.com writes:
If I remember correctly and its the KLF vs ENT single
that you are referring
to,then it was only released in a
limited number of one sided black 7".I
recall that the deal was
that you sent £2 mail order,and if you were too
late to get a
copy,then you got a melon instead.Whether anyone actually got
a
melon remains a mystery to me..but I DID get the
single.
thats the one but i do have a clear
7" too, still looking for the mustard one... if one exists, anyone
know or have it?
I got into the klf after seeing the Ford
Timelord in Charlton, SE London, going home and then seeing the 3am
eternal video on TV. I put that down to fait, so this began my long
arduous task of collecting "The KLF". i only had about 20 original
items, the rest was recorded for me by a friend that had vast
amounts of the stuff. Then i got a computer and BAM my credit cards
were hammered. I will continue to collect and give the whole lot to
my son (aged 20 months at present) when his 18 to do with as he
pleases. or should i wait till he's 33 or even 45???
Would
be nice to hear any other stories of how people began collecting
"The KLF".
Wizard
Keep Listening
Forever..
I'm thinking of aquiring a klf/2k
credit card with the million pounds (looked burnt to me) i found in
a suitcase at some museum just for buying klf material were i get
10% on purchases.. LOL.
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