It's not rare, or at least not yet ;)
I don't know how many copies got pressed. Some people say 700, others up to 900. Fact is that a lot of people have seen huge boxes full of them everywhere. Personally I've seen 200 copies of them already in boxes here in The Netherlands, then someone can't tell me that there are only 800 for instance in the world since that would mean that the rest of the world only has 600 copies left... I don't know how many there were, but for the moment it's not rare anyway. Especially since XL-Recordings sold them themselves as well for a very low price; only four Pounds Sterling.
What I've heard is that Liam Howlett got these BABY1 promotional white labels pressed himself and XL-Recordings only did the promotion and distribution for him really. Paying attention on the completely different catalogue number than usual, this could be true. And at the same time it makes me wonder about those BITCH1 (that is the catalogue number, right? doing this by heart so...) white labels which contained the Slacker Mix of Smack My Bitch Up. Have those been given out by Liam Howlett himself too maybe? I'm curious what others think of that...
I don't know how many copies got pressed. Some people say 700, others up to 900. Fact is that a lot of people have seen huge boxes full of them everywhere. Personally I've seen 200 copies of them already in boxes here in The Netherlands, then someone can't tell me that there are only 800 for instance in the world since that would mean that the rest of the world only has 600 copies left... I don't know how many there were, but for the moment it's not rare anyway. Especially since XL-Recordings sold them themselves as well for a very low price; only four Pounds Sterling.
What I've heard is that Liam Howlett got these BABY1 promotional white labels pressed himself and XL-Recordings only did the promotion and distribution for him really. Paying attention on the completely different catalogue number than usual, this could be true. And at the same time it makes me wonder about those BITCH1 (that is the catalogue number, right? doing this by heart so...) white labels which contained the Slacker Mix of Smack My Bitch Up. Have those been given out by Liam Howlett himself too maybe? I'm curious what others think of that...