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

wittiestcow

@fdroadrunner - the first album I saw that was 3-sides, with one blank one, was Johnny Winter's 'Second Winter'.... 

@larsman - I was thinking about that one, too, and I need to dig it out: it's been much too long since I gave it a spin.  The Appetite for Destruction remaster and a couple of the Neil Young Archives releases have had a side 4 with no music, too, but they chose to have an etching instead of bonus tracks - I would have went with bonus tracks, but no one asked me.

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.