Sold Date: January 26, 2025
Start Date: January 10, 2024
Final Price: £50.00 (GBP)
Seller Feedback: 146
Buyer Feedback: 0

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This is a lovely 1979 German 1st press with the A sleeve variant. The cover, inner & bag have no splits  and  the watercolour-in sleeve inner is as new (no blemishes at all).  Visually the vinyl is mint although the playback has faint surface noise apparent thoughout at volume. This is the STRAWBERRY vinyl matrix pressing.

Selling off my vinyl record collection. Celebrating 40 years in the music industry in 2024 covering all basis especially retail & promotion. I bought most of these from new or mint 2nd hand copies. I have carefully curated my collection and each LP has been looked after with the utmost care and attention during ownership. Japanese pressings have been a favourite passion of mine, along with limited audiophile pressings so expect to see a lot of these as the listings evolve. The collection is mostly 70s & 80s hard kock / heavy metal with a large smattering of 80s pop, some blues and country more jazz and a hint of progy leftfield stuffThis is just the beginning but with 1000,s to list keep checking back.

The copy, and all you see in the pics is what you will receive.

Your LP will be sent in a new heavy gauge LP polythene sleeve with the vinyl placed in an inner bag behind the sleeve to ensure that there will be no 'seam splitting' of the cover in transit. I only use Music Max strong boxes with the same brand extra strong 12" cardboard stiffeners and place the box in a waterproof PVC cover. For more expensive vinyl I use the Music Max QP2 or Twists for that extra padding. I aim to process and post orders on  the same or next day of purchase.

I take every effort to ensure the vinyl sold on here is accurately pictured & described, I try to include close-up pics of imperfections on the vinyl and these parts are always play-tested before listing. If you are thinking of purchasing an expensive item I can listen on request. I play-test with high end, turntables, arms& cartridges.

I never knowingly sell a vinyl that skips or jumps! If it jumps it goes in the bin not on sale!

The exceptions are very rare high-end vinyl. Occasionally I will offer an expensive vinyl that, due to the scarcity of that release, may be of inferior quality. I always fully re-play-test these items and write a description of the audio play-back. This is the only time you will see my vinyl listed as in the Fair - Good category everything else listed as Vey Good+ and above I expect these to play though without major issues, after all they did when I bought them.  If your vinyl does not meet your expectations I offer a return-refund policy...... and of course every purchase has Ebay's money back guarantee.

I use the Record Collector guide to condition grading. Please see table below for a guide to how your vinyl should look & play...

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