Anyone seen this b4?

Today a friend of mine walked in and handed me a couple of records he had scored at the local thrift store. Since he knows I'm interested in vinyl he bought what he could find and what was not a super top hits trance collection or whatever. Turns out he got me a copy of rick james cold blooded. Which is no exceptional find or whatever but it's still nice to get free vinyl right

Now my question, in the sleeve of the album is a small cut-out made, which I've seen b4 in other sleeves when I went digging so my question what is that cut-out made for, it's clearly made by the person who bought the album, is this part of some archiving system or what ?

i thinkn it'z done by the store to let them know that it has been sold or is a used copy so that they can't reseal it and sell for full price. plus they clearence those ones

not really sure....
anyone uncle 4000 u got this.?

Could it be Promotional copies such as what they give to radio stations?

dj e.d.e wrote:i thinkn it'z done by the store to let them know that it has been sold or is a used copy so that they can't reseal it and sell for full price. plus they clearence those ones

not really sure....
anyone uncle 4000 u got this.?

Aight FAM......................

Here iS The SCOOP................I Figured As Muck BUT I Always REAEARCH

SO WIKIPEDIA Says.............

In the recording industry, a cut-out refers to a deeply-discounted or remaindered copy of an LP, cassette tape, Compact Disc, or other item. When LPs were the primary medium for distribution or recording, manufacturers would physically cut the corner or add a notch to the sleeve of unsold records returned from retailers; these "cut-outs" might then be re-sold to record retailers or other sales outlets for sale at a discounted price. A special section of a record store devoted to such items was known as the cut-out bin or bargain bin. As tapes and CDs supplanted LPs, the mechanisms for indicating a cut-out changed -- often a hole or mark was burned or melted through the case of the item and its printed insert -- but the terminology remained in place.


This Was A MARKING to Designate a LP OR etc. For DISCOUNTS...........



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always coming through^^

It means it was from a promotional pile. every contract even today includes a certain amount of records, tapes cd's that the artist gets no royalties on and that the label isn't supposed to sell, hence promo, give away, and not supposed to get money for them, you know the gold letters you see stamped on them...

Yeah, those are promos that they are not supposed to be selling

at least if its a cutout, you know that its an original pressing used for promotions... cutouts are used in cds and tapes too...