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==Packaging== The cover is divided into panels featuring a photograph by [[David Montgomery (photographer)|David Montgomery]] of each of the band members, two on the front and two on the back. On the front is [[Pete Townshend]] applying Odorono brand [[deodorant]] from an oversized stick, and [[Roger Daltrey]] sitting in a [[bathtub]] full of [[Heinz Baked Beans]] (holding an oversized tin can of the same). Daltrey variously claimed that he had either caught [[pneumonia]], the flu, or "the worst cold that [he had] had in [his] lifetime" after sitting for a prolonged period in the bathtub, as the beans had just come out of the fridge, and were "freezing cold".<ref>{{cite web |last1=April 11 |first1=Corey IrwinPublished |title=How the Who's 'Sell Out' Cover Made Roger Daltrey Sick |url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/the-who-sell-out-roger-daltrey-sick/ |website=Ultimate Classic Rock |date=12 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7951056.stm|title=BBC NEWS β Entertainment β Roger Daltrey's concert conundrum|date=21 March 2009 }}</ref> On the back is [[Keith Moon]] applying Medac (an [[acne]] ointment) from an oversized tube to an oversized pimple, and [[John Entwistle]] in a leopard-skin ''[[Tarzan]]'' suit, squeezing a blonde model in a leopard-skin bikini with one arm and a [[teddy bear]] with the other (an ad for the [[Charles Atlas]] exercise course mentioned in one of the album's fake commercials). Original vinyl copies of ''Sell Out'' end with an audio oddity that repeats into a [[locked groove]] (In response to [[the Beatles]]' ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]''). The music in the locked groove is a snippet of what was originally intended to be a vocal jingle for the Who's UK label [[Track Records]].{{cn|date=January 2024}} When the LP was released on Track Records in the UK in 1967, a psychedelic poster illustrated by Adrian George was included inside the first 1000 copies (500 stereo and 500 mono). They came with a sticker on the front cover stating 'Free Psychedelic Poster Inside'. Because of their rarity, first pressings with poster and sticker have sold for more than Β£600 (about ${{To USD|600|GBR|r=-1}}). The {{convert|20|by|30|in|cm|round=5|adj=on}} poster was reinstated into the vinyl packaging when The Who's back catalogue of studio albums was restored to vinyl in 2012.{{cn|date=January 2024}}
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