18/09/2023
Will consider selling if the $ is right. Drive-By Truckers
Short print - this record was pressed only once for 500 units to be sold at live shows and ultimately ended up having two different colored picture sleeves, and a story to add to DBT lore. It was originally released with a brown papered picture sleeve that was supposed to mimic a grocery sack (or bag, depending on the area you are from). Graphically, it was a great idea and it indeed looked just like a grocery sack, but an unforeseen gremlin gummed up the works that ultimately required a change to the picture sleeve. Some stories have the PO Box changing mid sales; this is not true. The real story is that at some point in the sales history, it was discovered that the PO Box listed on the back of the picture sleeve, PO Box 667, did not match the PO box printed on the records label, which is PO Box 682. It's easy enough to dispel the notion that the PO box changed mid sales. It's a simple fact that all the 7-inch records have PO Box 682 printed on the record label. An estimated 400 units had already been sold with the incorrect PO Box 667 printed on the back of the brown sleeve. Coincidently, at around this same time, it was found that they did not have enough of the brown papered picture sleeves to sleeve the remaining 100 units. They came up short. The sleeves designer, Jim Stacy at Voodoo Graphics, did not have any more of the brown paper to print up corrected sleeves. What to do? It was suggested the remaining units be sold in a plain white sleeve. Patterson Hood talked it over with Mike Cooley and it was decided to correct the PO Box typo to PO Box 682, and they would just print up the 100 or so picture sleeves they needed to sleeve the remaining units. So, the covers for the remaining 100 units were run off at an Athens Ga. area Kinko's on white #80 stock with PO Box 682 listed as they were needed, but not all at once. The band was broke. The story out of the unofficial DBT site 3 Dimes Down is that Jen ran off 4 or 5 batches over the next few months until all were sold.
