45worlds Forum - View Single Post - Right cover, wrong album!

11th Aug 2021, 3:54 PM
	Break-In Master Member since Dec 2013 252 Points	albert wrote: Break-In Master wrote: mojofilter wrote: I bought Led Zeppelin IV but the record inside, including the inner sleeve, were from Genesis - Trick Of The Tail. I can see how the mistake was made at the pressing plant;. The catalogue number of IV was 19129, and the catalogue number for ATOTT was 36129. Somebody got three of the numbers right. I don't know how many boxes were shipped this way. Eventually somebody had to notice, right? Also, they were both from Atlantic! I would say that the most likely reason for the confusion is that Led Zepp IV has no writing on the cover whatsoever, so perhaps quite easy to make that mistake. Probably another example of a temp screw-up. They may have had cases of both records in the warehouse and, although they were SUPPOSED to get 19129, someone just saw a skid of 36129 and didn't even notice the difference and just continued using them! I've never really worked in a record store, at least not one that sold new releases but, I'm guessing returns don't get shipped back to the plant or the label. They probably just get written-off and that info goes back to the distributor and they just tell the store manager to pitch the mistakes. I used to raid the dumpster at a local distributor and found cases and cases of brand new stuff, each had a note from the label telling them to just throw away anything they couldn't sell or distribute.