Date:         Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:28:21 -0700
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The drilled holes. cut corners. and sawn slots were intended to make 
them unsellable at retail.

While many of such are close-out/remaindered items, some companies used 
the same methods for promo copies. Of course, in places like LA where I 
was in grad school, there was a thriving "grey market" in promos. My 
favorite was a "head shop" (it was early 70s) called The Field of Zaad 
that had a back room with nothing but bins of promos. Artists, 
producers, engineers would come by and trade their promos (and test 
pressings) for paraphernalia, etc. Amazing what one could get for $.99 
back in the day.

Bruce


On Feb 25, 2008, at 1:17 AM, alessandro bellafiore wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a question about a peculiar thing I observed on many records I 
> own.
> Many outer sleeve have a little round hole, hand-made not original, on 
> the
> high left corner.
> I noted all the records with this hole are record I bought from USA 
> (as you
> know I live in Italy).
> The inner sleeve doesn't have any hole so, it was taken out of the 
> other
> sleeve, the hole was made, and then the record was put in again.
> The records are in good condition so I don't believe is a strange way 
> to
> indicate bad or worn records.
> I suposed it may be a way to store the records on a wall but in this 
> case
> the inner sleeve has to have a hole too.
> Maybe the answer is obvious or stupid but I cant mind about hole 
> reason.
> Bye
>
> Alessandro Bellafiore
>