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Interesting about the Root Down ordering at your local record store. Maybe this was indicated on some wholeside order form or something, but not shown to the public unless (like at your place) the seller put a little sticker on it.

That's also super interesting about Love American Style reissue. I always thought that the colors were just random, but black was most common. I remember buying it brand new and being surprised that it was red. My buddy was a DJ at the time so I bought one for him for his birthday, and when he opened it it was white, which blew me away because I didn't know about the color differences. Maybe this was the same deal as with Root Down. Either way, the record store owners you knew obviously had that info.

The FFYR purple 7" I only know about because of the exhaustive library at Beastiemania. And as far as I know, only one copy has been positively identified. That damn single (FFYR) was so heavily pressed that even today, you can get your hands on all kinds of different versions of it for pretty cheap. So the fact that there is this super rare version always fascinated me. Like, why is it rare? Why didn't they make a million like every other FFYR release? I also wonder how it was verified as authentic. It makes sense that if someone bootlegged a hundred purple copies just for fun, it would be rare, although less valuable.