Sold Date: July 17, 2022
Start Date: July 12, 2022
Final Price: $89.99 (USD)
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This is an interesting variant of Pet Sounds you don’t see every day. Most original pressings have the green album art decal almost entirely covering the front of the record, with the words “DUOPHONIC STEREO” or “HIGH FIDELITY STEREO”, at center top. This rare variant has a thick white bar at the top of the decal with the words “FOR STEREO PHONOGRAPHS” instead. Very hard to find.

Disc: VG+. The disc looks and plays amazingly. Very faint crackling/noise will only show up for a short moment at times few and far between. One of the best copies of this album I’ve come across, HOWEVER there is just one point where it skips on my turntable. This comes at the very end of Here Today and doesn’t really bother me but I wanted to make sure it’s noted here.

Outer sleeve: EX. On top of being a rare variant of a first pressing, the album cover is in near perfect condition. The white on the edges/sides hasn’t browned at all, the corners are immaculate, and there are no seam splits (all of this can be seen in pics). Looks as if it were just taken out of the shrink wrap.

Original pink Capitol inner sleeve included! Color is beautifully preserved.

Will be shipped with additional anti-static inner and outer sleeves!

Etched asterisk symbol in the runout indicates this came from Capitol’s Los Angeles pressing plant. This plant (along with Jacksonville plant) are reputed to be the highest quality Capitol pressing plants and additionally, it’s geographically the nearest to the master tapes which may mean the stamper plate was first-generation and not subject to the wear and tear that comes with cross-country travel.

Runout side A: DT-1-2458-B-16

Runout side B: DT-2-2458-A-15