Picture sleeves

www.45cat.com shows the US picture sleeve, rnell. It's a great resource. (They don't have either of the first two sleeves you listed in the thread, though.)

http://www.45cat.com/record/2008s

music4life75 wrote: I couldn't understand why some were released with 2 different picture sleeves ("Addicted To Love" Robert Palmer, "Coming Around Again" Carly Simon, "Tell It To My Heart" Taylor Dayne, "Heartbeat" Don Johnson, etc.)?

Can't speak for those songs, but most Columbia singles from the 80s had slightly different picture sleeves for promo 45s vs commercial
ones...the promo sleeve made no mention of the B side.

A bit OT, but what (if any) market is there for sleeves? Beginning in the early 70s, I replaced them with generic sleeves and stored
the picture ones away to prevent damage/wear. I find that I rarely look at them, and as I get older and try to downsize just wonder if
there's any market for them.

A couple summers ago I took a ton of LPs I rarely played and sold them to a dealer. At the same time I asked if there was a market for
picture sleeves and was initially told "yes", but then the guy said something to the effect "hey, there's no record in here", which
implied that without the record the sleeve has little value.
Anyone know where/how I might monetize these? I don't know if there's anything rare/collectable in there or what is even considered
collectable.

I’m always looking for clean picture sleeves that I might not have for my
website. I scan them and clean them up in photoshop. It’s a hobby of mine
going back to about 20 years ago now.

As far as different sleeves for the same song I know that if it was on a
soundtrack it could get a different sleeve. Carly Simon, Blondie etc. fall into
that category. For Robert Palmer I think the music videos getting big might
have forced an image change for the pic sleeve. Don Johnson no idea really.
Maybe it got traction and became a hit and they didn’t like the original
enough to keep it or it was a short picture sleeve run at first and took
advantage of a re-press to change the look.

Clean 70s rock picture sleeves are what I’m really lacking. Don’t care too
much for Beatles or Stones since most can be found cleaned up, at least a
descent amount, on other sites.

I don’t have to like the song to have interest in the picture sleeve and
honestly I couldn’t care less about having the record, unless it’s an artist I
like a lot. Yea I know, kick me out of the forum lol. I just have to like the
picture sleeve itself.

I have 47 or so boxes of 45s with pic sleeves, with company sleeves, no
sleeves or just the picture sleeves. I need to sell or whatever most of my
collection. I’m the crazy dude who looks just for the picture sleeve and I
used to buy in bulk on eBay about 15 years ago from people who had the
records and picture sleeves from juke box companies or something like
that. That’s how I ended up with 10, 15 or so of the same picture sleeves for
some 80s artists. I bought lots of just picture sleeves. I was told that most
of the time as soon as the records were received for the jukebox they were
taken out of the sleeves and really never put back in them. So the condition
overall was excellent with no ring wear! Most had a few staple holes or
staples though from where the jukebox strip was attached long ago.

Anyway sorry for the ramble. It’s a passion hobby of mine. Always like
talking about picture sleeves.

Not sure if I can mention my site here. Don’t want to run afoul of any rules.
No big deal anyway. I don’t get much traffic since it’s not a popular topic I
guess. I do have over 3000 cleaned up picture sleeves on my site. Probably
over 1000 more I need to scan at some point. I usually do around 20-40 a
month but sometimes I take a few months or weeks off.

Ask question if you have them. I’ll do my best to answer them from my own
experience as a picture sleeve collector.