Quote Originally Posted by kenneth View Post
According to the author, some Motown employees went "rogue" and shipped new, just released albums as if they were "cut-outs." Cut-outs are albums that have been discontinued or gone out of print, and then sold at bargain prices to distributors who stock them in discount stores, or in what they used to call the "cut-out bins" in record stores, and sold at very low prices. They were called cut-outs, because the manufacturer [[in this case, Motown) would punch a hole, or cut off one of the corners to indicate it was a "cut-out" and could not be sold at regular retail prices.

The author stated that some Motown employees would sell the new, just released album product as if they were cut-outs and fleece the company of valuable album revenue.

Nomis may want to add some other details. I kind of skimmed this section because it was towards the end of the book and I was kind of hurrying to finish it.

Got a handle on it now - many thanks.