Sold Date: March 12, 2023
Start Date: December 19, 2022
Final Price: $46.73 (USD)
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Buyer Feedback: 153

Vinyl was play tested through Focal Elegia's and it played as NM-. I numerically scored the vinyl a 96 relative to very light surface noise at the start of the first track on the A-side and a couple of light noises within B5 however overall the album played super quiet and sounded wicked good. A visual inspection reveals some light marks and that is driving the Excellent rating. Also, the issue at the start of A1 was on my personal Japanese pressing of this album along with the issues on B5; on A1 (Runnin) it sounded like a little 'blur' within the first 3 seconds or so. On B5 (Ice Cream Man) it sounds like Dave was too close to the microphone on a few of the lines during the acoustic intro to the track.  This was present on my Japanese copy as well as well as my two other original American copies of the album to a bit of a lesser degree (a first US edition and a club edition) however was not present on the new remaster (and that sounds wicked good too).  The issue with A1 was not present on the US albums. You can see in the final picture all of the copies of the album together that I used for this confirmation.  Also, just in case, this listing is for the single Japanese copy shown in the first 13 pictures. The sleeve is scored as EX relative to small bumps and light corner wear, light wear to the top seam, light wear to the top of the spine (rough feeling but not outright split). The OBI, while complete, has a couple of nicks and tears. There are a number of issues but 100% this is in better than VG+ condition, it's probably more EX-.
Album will be mailed in a cardboard mailer between cardboard with bubble wrap.  If you have any questions please let me know and thanks for looking!