Original Unique Vinyl Inner Sleeves

Love em and hate em. The design can be nice but they aren't always good for the surface of the vinyl. Occasionally they're lined, but often not.

 

Definitely some nice one's out there
Arcadia-So Red The Rose

 

From Eagles Live 2LP set.



Darryl

 

Inner wrecker sleeves...



...and...

 

I usually insert my vinyl into standard paper sleeves and leave the inferior printed sleeves as inserts. The printed sleeves usually split at the seams and would often get folded when inserting into the cover on any regular usage.

 

I hate finding out that an album had a special inner sleeve l, after I bought it without one.

Darryl

 

When Rocket To Russia - Ramones came out first in the UK it lacked the inner sleeve with the lyrics and John Holmstrom cartoons. However you could write away for the sleeve which they would send to you by post. It was folded down the middle but better than missing out!

 

That's definitely the case with some releases:

Tyrannosaurus Rex / T.Rex string of albums Unicorn, A Beard Of Stars, Electric Warrior, The Slider and Tanx all had single sleeves with a special inner sleeve/sheet in their original UK format.

In the United States each of these received a gatefold instead with Unicorn**, A Beard of Stars, The Slider and Tanx having the UK inner sleeve/sheet as the inner gatefold.

Electric Warrior's US inner was a cropped version of the UK poster, the inner sleeve content not included, whereas Tanx, in addition to the inner content also received the poster. Unicorn fared the best - it also contained a large unique poster not in the UK original.

**The inner gatefold of Unicorn was the same concept as the UK but looks very different.

But I guess you knew this .......

 

Along with the actual record pages on Discogs, you can look at the listings for sale and see how many still have the inner sleeve. Inserts are interesting, too. There's one common 1970s record I always check out when I see it, which if it has one of the two inserts it originally came with moves it from a <$5 record to about a $15 one. I've never seen a copy for sale with both the inserts it originally came with, and I think if I ever find one and present it properly it would be a $50 record at least.

 

My bought new copy, (circa 1978/79) of the US version of the first Clash LP with the green cover, was the only copy I've ever seen with a printed lyric sheet with b/w band picture, inner.

 

So what common album are referring to? I was thinking Dark Side of the Moon but I think that came with 3 inserts: double sided poster and two stickers.

 

Jackson Browne Runin On Empty special insert sleeve and booklet.

 

FYI: Dark Side comes with four inserts: two posters + two stickers.

 

I love the inner sleeve of Go Girl Crazy by the Dictators. A band photo taken inside of a White Castle hamburger stand.

 

What the hell, it’s Todd Rundgren’s “A Wizard...”. There’s a poem by future star/then unknown Patti Smith on flimsy paper that’s often lost but shows up once in a while, I’ve found and sold 3 or 4 over time. What you never see is the postcard you could send in to get your name on his next album. Apparently everybody sent it in. I sent mine in and didn’t even make the poster in the Todd album. My pal who bought the record a couple weeks before I did made it, though.

PS, DSOTM came with two posters and stickers. The UK and US posters are different.