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6th May 2017, 10:22 PM
	Ade Macrow Beware of darkness..err...'expressing an opinion'' Member since Aug 2011 3195 Points	Call me dumb, but why would the oil crisis impact on the supply of paper/card? The answer is that it didn't but the oil crisis - which obviously did affect the vinyl - was also used by many record companies as an excuse not only to use lower-grade, thinner and often recycled vinyl (complete with minute carbon granules from melted-down unsold discs that hadn't had their labels removed before their appointment with the furnaces, resulting in that 'frying bacon' sound on so many 'new' releases) but also as an all-purpose excuse to further save money by cutting back on gatefolds, stickers and the like as well. No, it doesn't and never did make sense but it was what many major record companies, did. Epic Records were one such, reissuing Donovan's 'Cosmic Wheels' album - to cite just one example - with a single sleeve, no 'woodcut' printed paper inner or circular b/w poster-cum-lyric sheet. There are many other such instances. Hence my question.

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