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2nd Aug 2014, 10:36 AM
	YankeeDisc SUBS When in doubt.......accelerate........ Member since Dec 2010 733 Points	As an importer and wholesaler between 1977-1981, and involved with US imports into UK before that time, it was important for me to know the difference between KC, PC, JC prefixes and so on. The JC prefix (and Epic etc. variants JE...) was normally for deluxe albums or big selling artists, rather like Tamla Motown in UK charging a standard price for their standard STML prefix, and then a higher price for STMA series single albums, normally with gate-fold sleeves. The PC prefix albums ($6.98) ran alongside the JC prefix for at least a couple of years, so price comparisons were important. The $7.98 maximum retail price tag, meant that they cost me more wholesale ($4.32, if I recall, pre-shipping), and subsequently cost the retail outlets I sold to more (£3.75, if I recall). To answer the question by TheJudge, some issues had a very long shelf life, and started out as KC prefix ($5.98), went to PC ($6.98) with relevant price info. visible on the album cover spine, and perhaps ended up as JC ($7.98), again the spine had the relevant price information. If you can, take a good look at any US albums by any of the major companies from 1970s vintage, most have a price code on the spine edge, X798, 0798, etc.

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