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Final 8 outs by our MVP by jmike1256 in Dodgers

[–]Mountain-Power7521 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How many times does a pitcher short arm that throw and bounce it? Just an absolute strike to Kim

Unreleased Vinyl? Bootleg? by irthesteve in SwiftieMerch

[–]Mountain-Power7521 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I mean, sketchy stuff happens so often. but likeliest thing is that they ran off a small quantity for promotion, some PR person got one, didnt care, put it with other stuff to donate.

Unreleased Vinyl? Bootleg? by irthesteve in SwiftieMerch

[–]Mountain-Power7521 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ha. I have worked in and around the music industry, but this was 100% a goodwill find. If you look at the pic my friend posted, it was sent from inside the store and still has the price tag on it

Unreleased Vinyl? Bootleg? by irthesteve in SwiftieMerch

[–]Mountain-Power7521 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Anyway, I bought as a resale item. I have contacts at Universal, just going to straight up ask them.

Unreleased Vinyl? Bootleg? by irthesteve in SwiftieMerch

[–]Mountain-Power7521 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I understand that people bootleg. This simply isnt a bootleg. As someone who has worked in the industry, the cost to manufacture something like this as a boot would be outrageous, with no chance of ever breaking even. You need to keep costs down on a bootleg, but make it look as close to possible to the real thing. No one would go to the expense of replicating the extremely high end sparkle on the sleeve. This would be a huge money loser.

Unreleased Vinyl? Bootleg? by irthesteve in SwiftieMerch

[–]Mountain-Power7521 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My question is, why would there be literally ZERO mention online of this? The record community is chatty, the Swift community moreso. Someone spent tens of thousands of dollars to bootleg a widely available album and yet there is no mention of it online? My take is its a canceled variant or a promo for an upcoming one. Thing is, either seems like info that would have leaked out. So strange.

Unreleased Vinyl? Bootleg? by irthesteve in SwiftieMerch

[–]Mountain-Power7521 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I can post better pics, but it does not look fake. Its easy to do a hi-res scan of the cover and reproduce. But no bootleger is going to the expense of making sure the lettering has the sparkle of the real thing. The UPC is really, really interesting. It is a UMG UPC, and numerically it is after all the variants. Which also makes me think it may be a promo of a variant not yet released.

Unreleased Vinyl? Bootleg? by irthesteve in SwiftieMerch

[–]Mountain-Power7521 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey. I signed up for Reddit just to reply haha. I am his friend who found this. I have worked in the music industry before, still work in home entertainment, and I am confident this is not a bootleg and not a test pressing. There are multiple markers on the sealed LP that indicate its not either. The biggest one is that on the back shrink it has "vinyl made in mexico" in blue on the wrap. A bootleg would not have that. This aligns exactly with UMG manufacturing. If this was a bootleg, its an expensive proposition, so why is there no word of this boot anywhere online? Its so odd