They usually do. I think it was poor planning on Richie's part. There were two ways to prevent this from happening and nothing was done about it. First, Richie could have requested dub plates from the mastering/cutting office to make sure the cut is okay. Second, once the lacquers were sent off for press the record plant sends back test presses. It's possible the test presses were perfectly fine but if it's common in most copies of the release its probably on the test presses. Regardless, I am sure Richie will make the plant aware of it. He will probably get credited back for the ruined vinyl but you guys won't.JThoma wrote:I think the record pressing plants should make replacements and the distributors should replace those faulty records free of charge.
Good thing I haven't been able to get this in vinyl format yet. Maybe I should just wait for the repress.
