Grabbed a $3 single at a garage sale in Tulsa last month, the label said The Clash but the cover photo was clearly some local band from 1981. I spun it anyway and it turned out to be a killer demo that never got a proper release, so I kept the misprint as-is. Anyone else ever end up happier with the mistake than the real thing?
Found a 1982 Dead Kennedys single at a flea market in Cleveland with the cover art from a totally different band, some synth-pop group. At first I thought it was a bootleg or someone's bad fake, so I almost passed on it for $8. But the runout etchings checked out on Discogs and it turned out to be a legit factory screwup from the first pressing. Now I'm wondering, do you collect these defects for the story or does it just make you paranoid about every other record you own? Has anyone else got a mislabel that turned out to be the real deal, or got burned by one that was just a scam?
I bought this live recording at a flea market in Austin back in March, credited to some local punk act I'd never heard of. Last week I finally listened close and realized it was actually a Talking Heads soundboard boot from 1983, the guy just slapped a sticker over it. The giveaway was the drummer's count-in on track 3, that's pure Chris Frantz. Has anyone else sat on a mislabeled tape for way too long before catching it?
Picked up a random tape at the Goodwill over on 8th street last weekend. Cover said some 80s synth band I never heard of. Popped it in my car deck and side A was exactly that. Flipped it and suddenly it's some punk band from Chicago, completely different recording. No sticker on the shell saying it was a misprint or anything. Reminds me of that mixup thread about the 1993 single where the b-side was a demo from another label. Anyone else run into tapes where the two sides just don't match who's on the cover? I'm trying to figure out if this was a factory flub or someone's homemade dub job, because the sound quality is way too clean for a bootleg.