
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.