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Old Sep 26, 2009, 05:11 AM
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Originally Posted by waxingandwanding View Post
Actually in Japan, as far as I can tell the way sample discs work is when in the manufacturing process, a predetermined amount of the discs are pressed to check the quality of the overal manufacture of the product. The sample discs are then usually spread around internally or to family, friends and potential buyers (shopowners) to generate interest as well.

While they're definitely more rare than a standard retail edition of the CD, it's not really out of place to find sample editions of different albums in Japan. I have quite a few (of mainstream albums, not vgm) myself.
We bought from Jun Senoue such CDs, he called them Master CDs which are the finale ones before it went into production, they actually don't have to share the code bar every time.
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