Hmmm....well, maybe you just skimmed the article.

For example:

"I’ve come across some good eBay listings. For example: A2058935  was described as, “someone must have been smoking dope while drawing on the front cover both records have scratches but play ok.” Visitors to “We Buy White Albums” frequently offer their White Album stories as well. One told me that when he was a kid he would go over to his friend’s house to listen to the album. Except his friend’s copy had “Sexy Sadie” and “Happiness is a Warm Gun” scratched out because he was afraid that if his parents heard these songs they would confiscate the album."

and 

Q: It seems like the white album is a popular album for listener’s self interpretations. Like a clean white canvas. So many of your albums are re-imagined, written on, or abused. Have you noticed that?

A: The covers have certainly been well loved/abused! The white canvases have been personalized with everything from scribbled names to elaborate paintings. I keep wondering if Richard Hamilton foresaw that all this would happen to the covers when he designed it back in 1968.


and

A: I got into collecting multiple White Albums because every copy tells a story. Each one has aged uniquely over the course of the last half-decade. The pressings from 1968 were numbered, implying that it is a limited edition, although one running in excess of 3 million.



On Feb 18, 2013, at 5:40 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:

> I'd be more interested in the stories behind the different copies - where they came from, where they were acquired, how they got in such condition, who the inscriptions on the albums were about - but Chang doesn't know or doesn't care about anything other than the serial number. Too bad - this could have been an interesting project. Instead, it's a "what is it?"
> 
> Cary Ginell