| Main Pressing plants Pennyroyal Tea Test pressings Collection |
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Black vinyl test pressing with Mayking Records labels with handwritten catalog number and rubber stamped date, 21 JUIL. 1989, about one month before release. Pressed by MPO in France for Mayking, as they had a partnership with Mayking. Usually 25 test pressings were made for releases they thought would sell well. Some copies come with a release sheet from Revolver, a part of the Cartel. These test pressings were used to gather advance orders from retailers throughout UK. It was also common to keep one in the Mayking offices for reference, although this copy was usually discarded when the record was released. The copy pictured here came in the regular picture sleeve, which is very unusual for test pressings. It was most likely added later by another owner, or it could have been an extra sleeve lying around in the Mayking office. MPO test pressings came in white inner sleeves only. Most found have handwritten titles on the sleeve, I don't know whether this was written by MPO, Mayking, or the distributor. Three copies have been found, one with release sheet. The additional information text says: "Rush release for the hottest US band around. Licensed from Sub Pop. Already being played to death by Peel, UK tour in October, full promotional activity - front cover of Sounds guaranteed. TP's available soon." "Front cover of Sounds" is a reference to a British music weekly newspaper which supported a lot of the Seattle bands at the time. "TP's available soon" probably refers to some kind of promotional item (for shops or journalists etc). Could also be "test pressings", though that's a bit weird as these sheets came with the test pressings.
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 1. Side A  2. Side B  3. Release sheet  4. Text on inner-sleeve Thanks to tchoub and Douglas Baptie. | |||||||
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