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From: rpk@mit-vax.UUCP (Robert Krajewski)
Newsgroups: net.records
Subject: Re: Strange: ECM Pat Metheny albums (vinyl color)
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Date: Sat, 8-Oct-83 20:59:45 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  8 20:59:45 1983
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I think that people are reporting all these strange colors for records
because it really doesn't make much difference what color the record is,
even though what the record is colored with is inexpensive.  That's why
fairly gross variations in color are tolerated, as long as it looks black
under ``normal'' conditions.  If you hold up most records to the light you
will see that they are not perfectly opaque.

I am not sure of this, but it seems that the stuff out of which records are
made is clear.  Record companies first put out records in interesting colors
as a matter of course, but then they wondrered if people were freaking out
over the difference between the new PVC disks and good ol' black shellac
records.  So most are colored dark nowadays, even if they don't have to be.

One of the best-packaged albums to come out this year was ``New Gold Dream''
by Simple Minds -- there was a purple/yellow/missal motif on the cover, the
lyric sheet (sleeve), and the record label, so the record was colored yellow
with purple and red streaks.  Really beautiful, and a good record to boot !
-- 
``Bob''  Robert P. Krajewski      ARPA: RpK@MC
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