Michael Biel wrote:
> 
> One of the most novel programs of marking covers was done by RCA Victor 
> in the late 60s but these were NOT cut-outs, although they pretended to 
> be.  There were a lot of albums that were slow sellers but were still 
> selling just a bit. Plus they still had a large stocks of printed but 
> unglued front cover slicks for these albums.  They figured they would 
> never be able to use these up trying to sell them at full price, so they 
> "deleted" several hundred of these albums, glued the slicks to the 
> cardboard but cut a little triangular notch in just the paper of the 
> rear cover which allowed the cardboard to show thru there on the left 
> edge on the rear.  Then they pressed up the records on Dynaflex and 
> inserted the records into the jackets without innersleeves.  This made a 
> package that was relatively lightweight to ship, which reduced costs.  
> Then they sold the newly manufactured records to distributors and 
> dealers at cut-out prices -- and here is the important part of the story 
> -- without paying royalties because these, supposedly, were cut-outs.  
> But because all of these were on the newly introduced Dynaflex material 
> they couldn't fool anybody.  It was obvious they were newly 
> manufactured.  They ended up having to pay millions of dollars in fines 
> and restitutions to the performers and music copyrights owners who sued 
> them.

I picked up quite a few of these in the early 70s..$1.49 at Radio Shack. Many 
were albums I hadn't seen for years, like Artie Shaw's "Any Old Time", Horowitz 
playing the Brahms 2nd Concerto et al. Interesting.

dl