(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

PSASAP

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PMKAY

What's this all about

tennesseebanker

Are those graded albums ???

PSASAP

No, they're what 45 rpm records used to be housed in. The technical term is picture sleeve. When a hit single came out, many times it would be issued with a picture of the singer or band. The sleeves would only be available for a limited time, and then replaced by a plain white sleeve with a hole cut out of the middle. The limited quantities made, and the fact that they are highly condition sensitive, make them very desirable today.

PSASAP

Black picture sleeves offer a similar challenge to collecting black bordered cards, like the 1962 Topps Football or 1971 Topps Baseball. What makes collecting picture sleeves even more difficult to find in high grade is that the 45's stored in the sleeves accelerated the wear and tear on the paper. Most near mint or better sleeves exist today because the collector had the foresight to take the record out of the sleeve and store the sleeve in a Manila envelope or between book pages.

bbuckner22

Although Satisfaction sold a million plus copies the sleeve is very tough to find. Not as tough as the almost non existent Street Fighting Man or the ultra rare Beast Of Burden sleeves.

PSASAP

Yes, the single sold over a million copies, but the vast majority of the 45's were issued in the plain white sleeves. The picture sleeves were a form of advertising to promote the single, usually done in the first few weeks to a month of its release. It would be helpful to know what the production numbers were, but I have yet to see that information published. The picture sleeve for Street Fighting Man is the T-206 Honus Wagner of sleeves. There are only about a dozen copies known to exist, and the sleeve was pulled because of the controversial picture of cops beating up a protester.

billwaltonsbeard

got any Foghat?

PSASAP

Yes, in the 8 track tape player in my Pontiac Firebird! :-)