@darius right, yeah, that also tracks, no pun intended. i was specifically musing about post-Paul's Boutique producers who specifically wanted That Warm Sound (as opposed to, probably these days people add a vinyl overlay i'd imagine?) or to sample something that they created out of necessity to avoid copyright problems; this is all already so wonderfully more specific than i expected and i am geeking out hard over here
@kelly You can check out the dub-plates.org website circa 2009 where they specifically advertise their dub plate pressing service as "a quick way of giving dj an authentic warm sounding format to play" in addition to its normal utility of being a "rough draft" of what your commercial record will sound like on vinyl
https://web.archive.org/web/20090105151910/http://dub-plates.org/