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Daniel Griffiths

New book Dust & Grooves Vol.2 tells the tall tale of the scam records that could make collectors a fortune

Dust and Grooves Vol.2.

What if you could deliberately make a bad record, sell zero copies and still turn a tidy profit? And best of all it was all perfectly legal…

Welcome to the curious world of ‘tax scam records’ – records released in the States during a two year window between 1976 and 1978 that not only allowed the companies that made them to avoid taxes but – in 2024 – have produced rare records that keen collectors are now clamouring for.

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