In my mailbox today was a 7” vinyl promo copy of the song “Public Enemy #1” by Public Enemy. Released in 1987, this is the first single that they distributed as a group. White label demo copies such as these were usually the first batch off the press and were sent to radio stations, DJs, media outlets, etc.
Did they only make 500 of these? 5,000? 10,000? Probably no way to know, but the fact that this is one of the first Public Enemy vinyl singles ever pressed is amazing to me. I don’t know why promo copies aren’t a bigger thing in the vinyl world.