hype sticker appreciation thread!

still wanting to know what the "more" was on this one, as i'm pretty sure it covered everything pretty well without that added on.

I guess a few of the recordings ("Hard Times in New York Town"; "Wallflower") aren't technically "outtakes" or "demos." Also, while "Last Thoughts on Woodie Guthrie" is indeed "live," I would categorize it as something altogether "more"....

Speaking of Dylan, there are two good stickers on this baby (I miss "The Nice Price"):

http://www.searchingforagem.com/1980s/1980s_Pictures/SavedUSImportFront.jpg

Oh man you guys are gonna love this

https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_record_hype_sticker/

This was on a bunch of MCA records starting in the '80s. It started as a hype sticker, but then they started printing it right on the sleeve, obscuring/altering the artwork. Pretty annoying.

(see also: RCA's Best Buy Series)

https://img.discogs.com/FBz1pvBJNJuD5aEMG5MznrRtHyM=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/L-294717-1391836540-2201.jpeg.jpg

That kind of sticker is kind of a mixed blessing, when you're giving an album as a gift. I remember once gifting my dad a CD with Columbia's "The Nice Price" sticker, and he said, "I see you bought this at... 'The Nice Price'."

XP Sometimes MCA would go further with that. There's a budget version of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road that's just the two records in a wide sleeve, eliminating all the gatefold art.

Yep, they did that with '80s reissues of '70s reissues of early Who records, too. My Generation and Magic Bus used to come in a gatefold, but in the '80s they crammed two records into a single sleeve, with a sheet of paper illustrating that which had previously been the inner gatefold art.

Oh man you guys are gonna love this
https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_record_hype_sticker/
― piscesx, Wednesday, October 9, 2019 12:14 PM

brilliant. followed.

xpost: i hate when they cheaped out on the gatefold cover.

https://imgur.com/IogWTqt

https://i.imgur.com/IogWTqt.jpg

Not a hype sticker, but in light of the this thread, I had to laugh when this album art was just presented to me.

https://imgur.com/Z4O6VoJ

I save them too! I try to peel them off and affix then to the jewel case or sometimes in a black spot inside the booklet. When that fails, I'll cut them out with the plastic and insert them into the booklet.

My CD copy of Flowers of Romance has a ‘Compact Price’ insert on the bottom right of the cover, but it’s actually part of the booklet? Not sure how common this particular phenomenon is.

A lot of early MCA CDs had the budget-line badging added to the cover art, and the back page of the booklet had an ad for other Albums in the series.

That’s just rude

REVIVE! Got some CDs by the band War in the mail just now! Whoohoo!!!

https://i.imgur.com/QEYaaUq.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/tuTiVd9.jpg

RIP

https://i.imgur.com/QSmP7g1.jpg