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6th Jul 2015, 12:37 AM
	Break-In Master Member since Dec 2013 251 Points	I think the only one I ever had trouble with was, "Into Battle With The Art Of Noise". It's supposed to be a 12" single, but it has at least 4 songs on each side and it has a title like an album does and it plays at 33 instead of 45. Also, the Art Of Noise live "album". It also played at 33 and had at least 3 tracks per side, but it was actually sold as a 12" single. 12" singles didn't really exist until the mid to late `70's. Mostly in the disco era. In most cases, they were played at 45, but a number of them were made as 33's. Most 12" singles had a label sized hole in the cover, just like the 7" single, and would usually be in a company cover instead of a specially designed cover, but, in England, they tended to make them WITH full picture covers. The ones I saw as GREAT waste of vinyl were the ones that'd have ONLY one song on each side and both songs were not more than 2:00 long!! Apparently the 7" version from the `60's wasn't good enough, so they HAD to repress it, usually a BIG hit song that was VERY popular and had thousands and thousands of copies still in circulation, like an early Beatles single, for instance, blowing three times the vinyl DURING AN OIL SHORTAGE!!!!

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