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The cut-out bin like most bins was not a desirable place to end up.

An album could start out as the label's heavily promoted next big thing and within weeks be recognized as a massively overprinted failure. Unfortunately, tens of thousands of shrink-wrapped failures could not easily be discarded. The last ditch attempt for recovering some of the loss was the cut-out bin. Further salesmanship and marketing was deemed useless. A notch was cut in each album's sleeve and the world was now on notice that expectations had not been met and would not be in the future.

Sold in record stores as-is, like dented canned goods, the price was right if you were willing to risk a little food poisoning.

Occasional gems could be found for those willing to sift through the debris. Of course this was a young man's game. Family and jobs do not provide the proper temporal context for this type of musical mining.

The "Cut-Out Bin" blog is a forum devoted to failed expectations. Those concepts, ideas, and dreams that at one point appeared promising enough to garner some commercial investment, but later ended up still in their shrink wrap, piled up in boxes out in someone's garage.