TEMPORARY PRICE REDUCTION TO SELL THIS ITEM DURING in the next 24 hours (march 1st).  PLEASE NOTE THIS IS MORE THAN A 30% REDUCTION OFF THE ORIGINAL "Buy it now" option.  It will return to the higher amount when tomorrow comes to a close.  Thank you.   

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 and have a perfect 100% score on selling and on buying through this site.

If you are an Elliott Smith fan, I’m selling a special issue single, 180-gram vinyl of his “Figure 8” record, which was released in the U.S. about 2 months ago that was limited to 2,016 copies.  This is a VINYL RECORD.  And comes in the already OOP issue.  My copies are 100% perfectly sealed, never been opened or played; not even a dented corner.  The 180-gram vinyl is colored.  It’s a coke bottle green and smoke scattered across the green color.  I won’t open one to take photos, but I’ll see if I can find a stock photo.  The reason I don’t like stock photos is because it doesn’t show you exactly what you will be receiving.  And what condition it's really in.  These include a silver foil imprint on the back letting you know which of the 2,016 produced copies is yours.   

Why Buy from Me?

Well first, I think my pricing is pretty great.  I use eBay, Allmusic.com, Discogs, Amazon, Polyvinyl, CD Baby, Soundstage Direct, InSound, Mobile Fidelity and band website stores, and I love music.  Second, I don't like the ridiculous overpricing of eBay items and exorbitant packing or shipping fees.  I don't care for folks who sell music enmass for big profit, when I'm willing to do the same for much less money.  But we are talking vinyl here, and while I can ship in the U.S. for free; unfortunately can't do the same within US Military or any international shipping address.  You get a MINT sealed copy from me, 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.  Remember as well, that I, too, paid exorbitant prices for my copies to be shipped to me.  Third, I'm going to tell you what I literally paid for each copy of "Figure 8" and "XO".  I located all of them in a retail record shop in California for the retail price of $39.99.  Then after adding to each, sales tax ($3.40) and shipping and handling (was crazy) at $4.22 per copy... I paid $47.61 per record, and to place them in the best of packaging to keep them safe on their way to you, durable and zero-failure rate for me so far.  But I pay an additional $3.55 monthly to keep it on eBay.  So within the last two months, you could tack on For each month these continue to be in my ebay "store" I'm paying $3.55 monthly.  That brings you to a total -- up until now -- has cost me out of pocket exactly $51.16 cents per very special release from the enigmatic singer-songwriter, Elliott Smith.  And wait, that's really not where this ends, because when I sell items where I pay a percentage of a users fee from a third party, that $51.16 closer to $57.36 (when you add eBay's piece of the auction's action).  

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 a 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 responsibility stops the moment a tracking sticker has been affixed to my package and I hand it to a USPS employee.  You will receive an update on the tracking number as soon as I ship this.  

A bit about Elliott Smith’s “Figure 8”

Judging only by his earlier, bare-bones indie-label albums, it seemed highly unlikely that  would turn into the ambitious arranger and studio craftsman of his lushly textured Dreamworks debut,. A big part of that shift, of course, was the fact that  had major-label finances and equipment to work with for the first time; this allowed him to fuse his melancholy, slightly punky folk with the rich sonics of pop artists like  and .  continues in that direction for the follow-up,, an even more sonically detailed effort laden with orchestrations and inventive production touches. With a couple of exceptions, the sound of 's melancholy has largely shifted from edgy to sighingly graceful, although his lyrics are as dark as ever. Even if the subject matter stays in familiar territory, though, the backing tracks are another matter -- a gorgeous, sweeping kaleidoscope of layered instruments and sonic textures.  fleshes his songs out with assurance and imagination, and that newfound sense of mastery is ultimately the record's real emphasis; there's seemingly a subtle new wrinkle to the sound of every track, and yet it's all easily recognizable as trademark . Even if it is a very impressive statement overall,  isn't quite the masterpiece it wants to be -- there's something about the pacing that just makes the record feel long (at over 52 minutes, it is the longest album in 's catalog), and it can sometimes float away from the listener's consciousness. Perhaps it's that's songwriting does slip on occasion here, which means that those weaker tracks sink under the weight of arrangements they aren't equipped to support. Still, most of the songs do reveal their strengths with repeated plays, and it's worth the price of a few nondescript items to reap the rewards of the vast majority. Fans who miss the intimacy of his Kill Rock Stars records won't find much to rejoice about here, but overall,  comes tantalizingly close to establishing  as the consummate pop craftsman he's bidding to become.

Safely Ships to Your USA Home for FREE
Canada, Overseas and US military for $50.25

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 Credits info Directly from Discogs:

A1

Son Of Sam

A2

Somebody That I Used To Know

A3

Junk Bond Trader

Drums – 

A4

Everything Reminds Me Of Her

A5

Everything Means Nothing To Me

Bass – 

A6

LA

A7

In The Lost And Found (Honky Bach)

Bass – 

A8

Stupidity Tries

Bass – Drums – 

B9

Easy Way Out

B10

Wouldn't Mama Be Proud?

Drums – 

B11

Color Bars

B12

Happiness

Backing Vocals – 

B13

The Gondola Man

B14

Pretty Mary K

Bass – 

B15

I Better Be Quiet Now

B16

Can't Make A Sound

Drums – 

B17

Bye

Companies, etc.

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Credits

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·       Orchestrated By [Strings Orchestrated By], Conductor [Strings Conducted By] –  (tracks: A8),  (tracks: A3, A7, B11, B15)

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Notes

Comes with a lyric sheet.
Reissued to celebrate the 25 years since this record was released.  Numbered in silver embossed ink out of 2,016.

Recorded and mixed [...] at Abbey Road, Capitol, Sunset Sound, and Sonora Studios.

Assistant engineers:
at Sunset Sound: Geoff Walcha, Monique Mizrahi
at Sonora: Richard Baron
at Capitol: Dann Thompson, Steve Genewick, Charlie Paakkari, Jimmy Hoyson
at Abbey Road: Paul Hicks

Barcode and Other Identifiers

·       Shows who manufactured this reissue; it does not contain a bar code on this reissue, but it is from a reputable record company here in the U.S., with their insignia on the back.  And each copy I have has a foil stamped sequential number on the back cover, lower right side. 

Matrix / Runout: BL48-A Silver load/MRP 0365 [Sideways ☮]JW160414