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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: cutout Bleu |
| Date | Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:59:20 -0500 |
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At 01:54 PM 11/17/2003 -0500, Christopher wrote:
>They sure have looked like cutouts, with the punched out UPC and all.
>Most of the cutouts I've seen haven't been at Amoeba anyway. And as for
>promos, aren't they usually stamped on the front cover as being
>promos/"not for resale"?
No, most promos simply have the UPC punched out. Not many labels do that
stamping thing anymore. In the purest sense, "Cutouts" are just that: they
have been physically cut with a bandsaw, so that they can't be sold as new.
The term has just spread to cover any disc that's sold at a steep
discount, whether it's been phyically marked or not.
S
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