Mislabeled Vinyl

[Dag_3]

I have a Loudness album where one side is actually Howard Jones. The other is Loundness. Not really a fan of any of these artists, but I thought it was cool so I kept it. Can't find it now, but I can't believe it's worth anything. More of a fun item, really.

 

[copterske2]

I had it happen with a CD. The music is King Crimson's "Starless and Bible Black" and the jewel case reflects this, but the cd itself says "In the Court of the Crimson King" and has that album's songs listed. At least they got the right band.

 

[45rpm]

The closest I've come to a mislabel LP was a Ken Griffin "Skating Time" album with "Ken Griffin Ken Griffin At th At th Organ gan".

That, and a Box Tops 45 with a Chartbusters "Dance Dance" label on the other side.

 

[beans]

I have Tull's Bursting Out... the spine is labeled BUSTING OUT.

 

[Dan ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ]

Bought an Iggy Pop once that was actually Pat Benetar.

 

[parman]

I bought a Aerosmith Live Bootleg one time but it was something else. I didn't like whatever it was so I got rid of it, can't remember what was on the lp though. I remember reading that it's fairly common and they aren'nt valueable.

 

[bogstew]

I have a Doobie Brothers "the Captain and Me" LP with the correct label on side 1 and Little Feat "the Last Record Album" label on side 2. never even noticed for years.

 

[TubeStack]

I was just given a copy of Judas Priest's British Steel and side 2 is some other band.

I was very disappointed, was really enjoying the album!

 

[120db]

If you ever get a chance to look at an old gold or platinum award for a vinyl record, the label is always right (of course) but the actual record is almost always some other album and the tracks often don't match in length or even number most of the time. I think up through the seventies , award records were actual metal parts from the pressing plant, but they were still often the wrong records. Later they would just spray paint copies of whatever vinyl was handy at the time.

 

[riksors]

Queen's Greatest hits.

Side labels interchanged. Not the best quality but I still kept it.

I find it cool.



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[loquatious]

in 1978 i bought a 7" residents ep release of "duck stab." the cover and labels matched, but when i played it, the pressing was a children's record. nothing to do with the residents, it was a story about "a large and growly bear." taking note of the surreal turn of events, i was disappointed but figured it was better for someone like me to get a residents record with a children's story on it, than be a parent buying a disneyland children's record only to find creepy resident sounds emanating from it. that could cause commotion in the nursery.

small-run factory mix up.

still have the ep.



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[Hail Vinyl!]

Although the four labels in my copy of Tesla's "Five Man Acoustical Jam" are in the correct order, the first LP has the recordings for sides 1 and 3 and the second LP has the recordings for sides 2 and 4 (had it been intended as an automatic sequence stack, the order should have been 1-4, 2-3).

 

[Dennis Gardner]

I have Supertramp-Crisis? What Crisis? with 2 side 2 labels.

 

[rhomanski]

I have a George Harrison "All Things Must Pass" in really good condition, one record is perfect but the other has the right labels but they forgot to change the die on one side and it has a repeat of the other album. In other words the records have the right labels but one has side 1 & 2 the other has side 2 and side 4, but the labels say 3 & 4. I went back and bought another copy and it was fine. They sit side by side in my collection. I've been told mistakes with records make them less valuable.

 

[jonman]

I had an album labeled as Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels Greatest Hits on both the cover and record. The record was actually band called Dollivers Travels. It was on the Bell Record label.

 

[Lost Monkey]

My DSOTM has the same label on both sides.

 

[luxmaster]

This is the 1st record I have seen where it seemed to have accidentally double labeled the record. I wonder how this happened?