new cat
Joined: Jun '18
Posts: 3
Hey all,
New member here I've got an odd question for the PUTS hive mind. Yesterday, after hunting for quite some time, I purchased a nice copy of O.S.T. from a local record store only to find out when I got home that side 2 is pressed with a Jon Spencer Blues Explosion album. Very weird. Different matrix numbers and "MasterDisk" are etched into the runout.
Were pressing errors a common thing with this album or did I find the rarest and weirdest copy of the album? lol
Thanks
The Architect
Joined: Feb '05
Posts: 3,167
Wow that is weird! Never heard of that before. Do you mean one side is OST and the other side of the same disc is Jon Spencer?
I’ve seen record shops mix up record before if say there are two discs in one sleeve, but never heard of two sides of one disc being different?
P fan #1
Joined: May '10
Posts: 510
I'd be surprised if this were anything other than a record store mixup with a completely different LP somehow ending up in the O.S.T. sleeve TBH?
O.S.T. was "Mastered by John Dent @ LOUD" according to both the sleeve credits and ruout carvings (JohnZ signature + LOUD* inscribed on sides A & C; LOUD* on sides B & D), so there's no overlap with MasterDisk that might have resulted in a weird, random mispressing.
Someone even nerdier steeped in P trivia than myself and/or in posession of OM era test pressings (+ Thes obviously) might be able to further debunk the idea by identifying what pressing plant was used at the time, but I'd wager it probably would've been Rainbo Records or some other Cali-based company rather than NY's MasterDisk..?
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