Although ARCs are usually free promotional items, some early versions of books are sold to the public while labeled ARCs, e.g. Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold.
A print run of 400 advance copies was released by 720 Records at one of the band's concerts at The Boardwalk in Orangevale, California on October 28, 2004.
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Their first act as a signed band was to record a cover of Darlene Love's "Alone on Christmas" for the Drive-Thru Christmas compilation Happy Holidays from Drive-Thru Records and a sixth song for their debut EP, advance copies of which had been given out at a show at the Boardwalk in Orangevale, California on October 28, 2004.
Michael Cunningham is a favorite writer of one of Scissor Sisters' lead singers, Jake Shears, and gave Shears an advance copy of Specimen Days.
Led Zeppelin biographer Mick Wall also points out in When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin that "Peter Grant had given him Jimmy Page an advance copy of Truth weeks before its release" and "it seems inconceivable that John Paul Jones would not have mentioned at some point that he had actually played Hammond organ on the Truth version".