What's up with asterisks

I've seen it so often I'm convinced there's got to be some specific reason why people do this
Why do people mark certain tracks on the record?? Anyone got a clue??

For scratching? To mark breaks and so on?

Can't be it, for example on an album without any breaks, and it's maybe half of the songs that are marked.

So that they can get to cue points quickly...

No no, they are marked on the tracklist on the back of the cover.

cuz a highlighter werent handy?


those selections be da joints yo!

Scrawny wrote:I've seen it so often I'm convinced there's got to be some specific reason why people do this
Why do people mark certain tracks on the record?? Anyone got a clue??

i used to do it so i knew what songs id wanna save - ex. record to tape or internal memory
also cant take records on a road trip so converting the songs to tape was a thing (still is) for a while