Rare Album Misprints/mispressings

[el borracho]

I've still got a Saxon 7" picture disc which is a mispressing. It has the A side, The Bands Played On, on both sides (it's not supposed to). Whether it has any rarity I have no idea, but I doubt it has much value as I cant see Saxon singles being in great demand. At the time I did go back to the shop. They said they hadn't come across any others so I kept it.

[Nail Soup]

Not a mispressing/misprint as such, but the converse to the "pillock who took it back" story.

I bought My Bloody Valentine album "Isn't Anything" - the first 5000 copies of which came with a free MBV single. Except mine was with a different single (also on Creation Records). Like a pillock I kept it, thinking that I already had 12 MBV songs, and this would be a bit of variety.

Still kicking myself 33 years later!

[Stingray5]

Here's a small but slightly odd label printing error. I bought the CSN&Y album, Deja Vu, in 1970 (still got it) but it wasn't until a bit later I noticed that the words "ONE" and "TWO" in the centre strip of the label had each been assigned to the wrong side. The actual track pressings are correct and the song titles are correct for each side. Just those two words that are wrongly printed. 
I worked in record shops in the 70s and 80s and was a manager for over 10 years and although there must have been a few that were printed before the error was spotted, personally I never came across another copy. 

SIDE ONE

SIDE TWO

[PaulWarning]

I've  got a copy of Vital Idol, on vinyl, labels the wrong way on,  i.e. side A label is Side B, side B label is side A, don't suppose it's worth much

Edited January 26, 2021 by PaulWarning

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

6 hours ago, Stingray5 said:

Here's a small but slightly odd label printing error. I bought the CSN&Y album, Deja Vu, in 1970 (still got it) but it wasn't until a bit later I noticed that the words "ONE" and "TWO" in the centre strip of the label had each been assigned to the wrong side. The actual track pressings are correct and the song titles are correct for each side. Just those two words that are wrongly printed. 
I worked in record shops in the 70s and 80s and was a manager for over 10 years and although there must have been a few that were printed before the error was spotted, personally I never came across another copy. 

SIDE ONE

SIDE TWO

I can’t help thinking I’ve seen that somewhere before.

[Stingray5]

2 hours ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

I can’t help thinking I’ve seen that somewhere before.

I see what you did there.  

[Flymo]

On 11/05/2020 at 15:25, NickD said:

I do have a bunch of pic discs in my Mum's loft, I must get to go through them one of these days. I know some were reasonably rare.

When I was very young I bought Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Welcome to the Pleasure Dome, gatefold, that had side one on both sides of disc one... Like a fool it went back to Woolies!

I did exactly the same thing from the same retailer, WH Smiths in Ealing Broadway.

[Leonard Smalls]

Not a miss-press, but I remember getting a copy of Joy Division's "Licht und Blindheim" limited edition single on Sordide Sentimental records.

My French penfriend bought it for me in exchange for a UK Subs single...

So stupidly I sold it for £40 back in 1981.

They're now going for about £1500!

[Si600]

I have the shaped picture disc of Fear of the Dark from, I think, A Real Live One. The B side is supposed to be Hooks in You, but it's actually Tailgunner. No big deal it's a better song anyway. 

 

I looked into it to see if it was worth anything but apparently the whole run was wrong, so it's not rare at all! 

[Sean]

I have The Police Sixpack coloured vinyl with incorrect labels on some of them. They're just jumbled up. It never really bothered me as a kid as I never played them as I had the songs on the albums and the original singles. The six pack was always treasured. 

[Sean]

I also have an early copy of Led Zep II that is of interest to record collectors. It's got a purple lower label, contains different song names and the sleeve artwork is lighter. I'm not really up on it but a couple of friends have made noises and faces at it over the years.