Stickers on new guitars - WHY?

Fuengi

Some old 80s vinyl I have bought recently have come with shrink wrap and Our Price, HMV or WHSmith stickers still on. 

Despite the fact that they show the cover has been protected to a degree, they all get summarily removed. What is the point in having a decorative cover if it is shrouded in grotty plastic and price stickers? 

King85

Mayo is also a good one for getting sitckers off, smother some on, leave it for 30 mins and it should come off nice and easy.

Sassafras

King85 said:

Mayo is also a good one for getting sitckers off, smother some on, leave it for 30 mins and it should come off nice and easy.

And you can lick the mayonnaise off, so nothing's wasted.

Funkfingers

Philly_Q said:

Funkfingers said:

ICBM said:

Don't get me started on all the crap that comes on CD cases either!

My favourite CD jewel case adornment was the PMRC Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics warning sticker on Jazz From Hell by Frank Zappa - an entirely instrumental album!

Now I'm wondering if there was one of those stickers on the CD of Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention.

Nope. 

On the 1986 Rykodisc edition of the FZMTMOP CD, the cover includes the same Warning/Guarantee statement that appears in The Real Frank Zappa Book. 

There is also a bonus track, Porn Wars, assembled in the Synclavier from audio clips of the Senate Committee hearings.