Sold Date:
May 26, 2017
Start Date:
September 2, 2015
Final Price:
$74.99
(USD)
Seller Feedback:
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What
I’m selling:
I took a lot of time putting this listing together. Please read it in full before "purchasing now" on this unique product. Failure to do so subjects you to fault, not me. If you have any questions, I suggest you contact me first before buying this item. Same with shipping, since you will be given options, but as you well know, we need to put "canned" eBay shipping info on all items. So what's posted is not correct, but the body of this summary clearly spells out purchasing terms. I also do not ship until your payment has cleared for three business days. I take very careful care in packaging all of my shipments myself, have never had a return and have a perfect 100% score on selling and on buying through this site.
If you are a fan of Nick Drake, Jens Lekman, Mark
Lanegan, Morrissey (or the or even Elliot Smith or American Music Club, and you haven’t heard
Alexi Murdoch’s one and only full LP), you have some hard thinking to
do. You can sample Murdoch’s songs all
over YouTube. He almost never tours
(incredibly, he played a show in my hometown back in the Fall of 2011 to 120 adoring fans -- the concert sold out in 17 minutes).
Late last year, Zero Summer Records released the album, “” in two stunning versions. First, the black vinyl double album in tri-fold packaging, the second, also in tri-fold super packaging, a 180-gram double white vinyl version that was limited to 500 copies disbursed throughout the world.
Currently I am selling the extremely hard-to-find
white vinyl version in mint sealed and near mint jacket that, during manufacturing, ended up producing a beautiful record, but it's packaging spine is more than 1/2" and so the manufacturer affixed it to cardboard, and double-shrink-wrapped every copy, and effectively messing up a few corner dents because it was re-shrunk-wrapped too tight. The photos you see
in this listing are all from my copy and the copies I’m selling. I used a combination because I want buyers to
see the entire packaging with my photos of my opened record, but also the minuscule damage BOTH were subjected to.
There’s a bit of corner pinching that may bother the most elite of
purist collectors, but unfortunately, those minor dents in the upper left hand
corner and the lower right hand corner were caused by the manufacturer, who
chose to shrink wrap each LP (again, it's a trifold record, which means the spine is almost 1/2" and crushable because it has nothing to support the most inner backing from the most outer backing if shrunk too tight or dropped, etc. Another seller sent me several white vinyl copies that are shrinkwrapped to the back of thick cardboard, then shrinkwrapped again. The minor dents on some or all four corners in no way take over the beautiful aesthetic of the entire package,
and only 400 people own a copy. No one
has successfully sold one on Discogs due to price gouging and enormous shipping
expenses on top of that, and the listings on eBay are asking for roughly $125 USD + another $50 for shipping, and one of them is the black vinyl version, the other white. and it’s currently listed for $122.61 with a shipping
cost set at $32.18. That’s $154.79 for
the non-limited black printing (though Alexi’s management just sent out a
reminder to fans that once the black printing is sold out, neither will be
repressed. Period). You get a MINT sealed copy from me, on white
vinyl and packaged any number of ways depending on how much risk you want to
take with the record when it is shipped to you. I based my shipping by going to the post office and having the records and my shipping materials weighed out for the US, Canada and elsewhere worldwide. I will not be profiting from my shipping expenses in the least, and depending on where you live, I'll probably pay additionally for my items to get to you. Based on which is less expensive, your record will be shipped media mail or priority mail. Remember as well, that I, too, paid exorbitant prices for my copies to be shipped to me, and eBay will take a further chunk out of me if this item sells at the reasonable price I'm listing it at. I will not accept any returns, opened or not,
you will be paying for insurance and carry all liability if you choose not to
insure this product and it “disappears”.
It will be shipped, with or without insurance, very carefully with either a UPS or USPS tracking
number for the US, Canada and most major countries. Again, without you paying for insurance, if the record never arrives, it will not be because of me, my responsible stops the moment a tracking sticker has been affixed to my package and I hand it to the shipping service of my choice. You will receive an update on the tracking number as soon as I ship this.
On to the more important things... Alexi's timeless music. So Nick Drake, it's like he's been reborn. But Alexi mixes it up a bit and isn't just a Drake imitation; he's the real deal decades later.
A
bit about Alexi:
In late 2003, things picked up rapidly and a bit
weirdly for folkie . Moving to balmy Los Angeles from Scotland in
the late '90s, let the sleepy, weepy U.K. folk sound seep into
indie and lo-fi influences. But he never did much with his music beyond some
local gigs, he worried about damaging his personal attachment to the songs.
That was until September 2003, when appeared
on 's tastemaking “Morning Becomes Eclectic” show
on the L.A. public radio outlet KCRW. The singer's halting, tender vocals and
understated acoustic guitar work made a huge impact, and suddenly, savvy music
licensers -- not to mention major labels -- were knocking on the Scotsman's
door. He performed at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2004, was slated
for SXSW that March, and made all the teenagers cry when his dusty, melancholy
"Orange Sky" tinged a particularly sentimental moment on the breakout
Fox TV hit The O.C. took his sudden and unexpected success in stride,
promoting his self-released EP and planning a spring U.S. tour while
continuing to field offers from the clamoring major labels. However, not
finding the right offer, decided to again independently record and issue
his first full-length, 2006's “” which contained three of the four
songs also included on his EP.
Safely Ships to Your USA Home for $14
Overseas for $60
U.S. Military that is deployed elsewhere than the U.S. for $60 (meaning you have a single U.S. P.O. Box that our country accounts for you and essentially, it costs import-plus prices to ship to those boxes).
Canada for $55.50
NOTE: Buyer assumes all risk
if they choose not to insure this product.
No returns, especially if you open the product.
I do not ship until your Paypal payment has cleared!!!!!!!!!!
I also do not sell in the following countries:
Argentina, Chile,
South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine or Romania.
Track Listing and info Directly from Discogs:
A1All My Days Bass – Cello – Drums – Guitar, Piano, Percussion [Snare], Tambourine – Guitar, Steel Guitar [Pedal] – 4:57A2Breathe Cello – Double Bass – Drums – Drums, Percussion – Guitar [Delay] – Guitar, Keyboards – Tom Tom – 4:17A3Home Double Bass – Drums – Guitar – Guitar, Piano – Steel Guitar [Lap] – Tabla – Tambourine – 5:50A4Song For You Drums – Electric Piano [Rhodes] – Guitar – Guitar, Piano, Bass, Percussion [Snare], Organ – Steel Guitar [Lap] – 4:38B1Dream About Flying Double Bass – Drums – Guitar – Steel Guitar [Lap] – 4:50B2Wait Backing Vocals – , Bass – Drums – Guitar, Backing Vocals – Guitar, Piano – Keyboards – Steel Guitar [Lap] – 5:57B3Love You More Bass – Double Bass – Drums – Guitar – , Steel Guitar [Lap] – 2:36B4Blue Mind Backing Vocals – , Bass – Drums – Guitar, Piano – Guitar, Shaker – Mandolin – Rattle [Indian] – Steel Guitar [Lap] – 5:43C1Shine Bass – Drums – Guitar – , Guitar, Piano – Keyboards, Vibraphone – Shaker – 7:46C212 Bass – Drums – Guitar – Guitar, Piano, Cymbal – 6:50C3Orange Sky Backing Vocals – Bass – Guitar – , Harmonium, Guitar, Piano, Tambourine – Percussion – Steel Guitar [Lap] – 6:11 Credits Layout – Mastered By – Mixed By [Assistant] – Mixed By, Recorded By [Additional] – Photography By [Cover] – Photography By [Studio] – Recorded By – Recorded By [Additional] – , Written-By, Producer – Notes Pressing of 400 copies on 180 gram white vinyl with a "Compass Rose" D-side etching. Packaged in a triple-gatefold jacket and includes a digital download card for entire album in 320kbps MP3 format.