I suppose there are many explanations. A lot of these ultra limited runs start to appear in the discrogaphy after they started to experience some success. So a few therories: 1. They would pay the plant owner for the minimum run and then scrap the pressing after tests were made. The ower would love this as he would get to keep the entire fee for less work. 2. They knew someone at the plant and would pay them in drugs, hookers, etc. for unofficial, limited jobs. 3. They would press an entire run then destroy the extras to make their run limted art pieces. 4. There are boxes and boxes of unreleased records sitting in Bill's garage or a landfill somewhere. I have heard from many sources the KLF would often completely finish a product, have it pressed, then change their minds about it and never release it. Considering how many people were around them at the time, some of these things must have been stolen before destruction, accounting for the few that survived such as the handful of Eterna 1s that have been reported, or the Deep Shit 10IR, which must have been considered for a mail order only release or as a bonus disc for the first few hundred copies of the White Room OST...could one imagine releasing such a thing commercially??? Dan On Sep 2, 2011, at 1:57 AM, Antti Lavio <antti.lavio@possu.org> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Dan T. Hutchins
If the 3 track exists at all, it is only as a test pressing.
Thing is that you don't test pressings or very limited (1-20) runs on pressing plant just for fun. B&J probably had money, but it is still really expensive. You have to make plates and clean the machine after all runs and so on. That's why I'm very skeptical with all those very small runs. Those either doensn't exist at all, or then there's more than announced.
Good article how vinyl pressing works:
http://www.crimson-ceremony.net/pr3/pressingplants/intro_vinyl.html
-- antti l.
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