When vinyl copies of Lil Wayne 's Tha Carter VI — the latest entry in the rapper's vaunted Tha Carter series — went up for online preorder earlier this year, Alexis Collins was ready. The 27-year-old technical support engineer, who lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and describes herself as a longtime Wayne fan, says she ponied up for the purple color-variant vinyl, which goes for about $38 , plus a couple of bucks in sales tax and more than $10 for shipping. Upon receiving her order, though, Collins noticed something odd: Unlike the other Lil Wayne vinyl albums in her collection, the record's packaging didn't include a tracklist to show what songs were on side A or side B. Matters got worse when she started listening.

"The vinyl itself has a nice sound to it, but I don't believe it ha

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