Using their own equipment, they made 50 cassette to cassette copies to give to friends and to sell.
One common cause was the use of a cassette copy from a tape recorder with a different head alignment to the one being used.
I've got a cassette copy, safe in my desk.
This was also true for cassette copies of the album, which retained the original title.
The first cassette plays the music while the other (blank) cassette copies it.
Some cassette copies, such as the original Canadian issue, had an alternate track listing.
In 1978 some original cassette copies also appeared in the United States, though, apparently this was by mistake.
It wasn't on cassette copies of the album.
Sometimes, if advance permission has been obtained from the subject, a cassette copy of an entire interview will be sent out.
From there, "The Look" spread on cassette copies to other radio stations.