Tom petty record misprint


My dad bought a tom petty & the heartbreakers record set before I was even born, it is anthology through the years. I just decided to play it today for the first time ever, I somehow didn’t realise side A was entirely blank. The needle rips across the track. Also the notebook was printed backwards in the box set (see images) none of it makes sense to me, is it a collectors item or total garbage? Unopened versions go for over 600 bucks now, not planning on buying one anytime soon. I can’t figure out how to upload images will try later

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Showing 2 responses by larryi

I don't know of any miss-pressings that had a high collector value.  The only error I know of that increased the value of a record slightly are copies with the wrong track listing on the jacket of "Kind of Blue."  This was restricted to the earliest of pressings befo the error was found.  I have a mono recording with this error.

I have a two record set with the side order messed up.  Apparently someone put side 1 and side 3 together (no it was not an automatic sequencing record) and side 2 and 4 together so I had to right the correct side on the label area or I would never be able to figure out what side to play for the few tracks I wanted to hear.

The weirdest record I have is by a small but usually high quality classical label (I believe it is Argo) where one side plays back at a totally wrong speed--it is not 33.33 or 45 or any other common speed.  When the lacquer was cut, no one bothered to actually play back a test pressing to note any problems and they simply let the problem pass all the way to the final product.  I did not even think this sort of thing was possible.

Blank-sided albums are not misprints if that is what is intended.  I have an audiophile pressing where there are two records, both of which are only pressed on one side.  Supposedly, pressing both sides degrades the pressing, hence the one-sided records.