The Beatles – ΑΩ (Alpha Omega) album art
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This is a wild one. In 1972/73, a record company known as Audio Tape, Inc issued two pirated vinyl box sets containing music from various Beatles albums without any credits, in an attempt to exploit the Sound Recording Amendment of 1971.
From Discogs:
The “Alpha Omega” box set was a pirate/illegal collection of Beatles recordings sold in a four-part 8-track collection and 4LP box set in 1972. It also included several then-contemporary solo tracks, and was advertised in print, on TV, and radio, and sold via mail order. This compilation was sourced from American Capitol LPs featuring the Dave Dexter, Jr. edits found exclusively on those albums – compression, bass reduction, and additional reverb. Some of the tracks were edited haphazardly; Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band fades out early, for example.
Either a group or person titled Art Wing designed the cover, which uses Charles Papirtis’s Pink Mouse shaded “E” style, issued in 1970 by Photo-Lettering, with News Gothic used for the back titles. Alternate colored sleeves were produced along with single color ones. CD releases were also produced further in time with the same full-colored cover design.
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Cover with color
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Releases without “ΑΩ”, includes the numerals 1 and 2 for Pink Mouse
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Detail
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CD release
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