Why cuts into vinyl covers?


Sorry if this has been asked before.  In my search to purchase vinyl I come across albums that have holes drilled or half inch cuts into the corners of the albums.  I've come across this on CD cases as well.  Does anybody know, who does this and why?  And do you think it devalues the album?
Thanks in advance.

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Showing 1 response by tomstruck

Growing up I lived two blocks for a RCA record plant in NJ workers on the loading dock would give albums and singles and told us if it had a hole in the cover it was returned from the stores and if it had a cut into the vinyl it was defective I have some promo albums and they say on them for promotional use only and I got those from a friend who work in NYC radio
Don't know how many of those records we sailed on to the roof of the plant from the hill behind it