in keeping with the 'thought I'd seen it all' threads recently, just saw this, which I think really does take the biscuit...

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/US-Northern-Soul-TONY-GALLA-Holly-StJames-BILLY-PROPHET-Sam-Fletcher-TONY-HESTOR-/380611321018?pt=UK_Records&hash=item589e33dcba

 

 

 

The distinction here is that they are 8ts photocopies, so evidently that makes them more collectable than one I might have done today..

 

thought I'd seen it all...

 

Mal.C

Edited April 3, 201312 yr by Mal.C.

Stick 'em over bootlegs to make them look like original WDJs........................

Stick 'em over bootlegs to make them look like original WDJs........................

That smacks of the truth. (just edited a rant there). My son worked for a while in an office supplies in Mansfield, where a well known record collector regularly took records in to have labels copied back and front in high resolution. I wonder why? 

That smacks of the truth. (just edited a rant there). My son worked for a while in an office supplies in Mansfield, where a well known record collector regularly took records in to have labels copied back and front in high resolution. I wonder why? 

A northern soul conspiracy comes to Mansfield  ....

I know nothing.

 

 

A northern soul conspiracy comes to Mansfield  ....

The truth is out there

The truth is out there

In the early days i think that it was easier to tell the boot from the original (with a few exceptions), but now these photo-copy stuck on labels are of such high quality that unless you have the record in your hand ( and even then) it is close to impossible.