The Beatles with their 2-LP set called Love Songs.  From 1977.  These songs are theirs from the '60s except for a Buddy Holly song from 1957 and the Beatles with their 1970 song "Long and Winding Road."  It's on a Capitol tan and brown label.  Comes with a 27-page large paper booklet with all the lyrics to the songs. 

The gatefold cover has white ringwear around it on the front and back side.  The color is more of a brown color as the 2 photos here look a little lighter color probably due to the light.  It looks like they tried to make the brown cover look a little more like a leather look to it.  There are white marks at the top and bottom seams probably from pulling the record cover in and out of the shelving.  The corners have those white tears/marks on them.  Inside the gatefold, the black/white photos of the Beatles look great!  The 2 records come in a beige inner sleeve of which I have the photos here. 

Side One barely has any surface scratches, think I saw just one super light one.  Side Four is the back of Side One.  This has a light small scuff, but has a little stretch of surface scratches across a few songs and a photo of that is here.  But when I played it on my Technics turntable, absolutely no skips, pops, crackles, and no tics either!  Fantastic!  The 2nd LP is called Side Two and I barely saw a couple super light short surface scratches and under a super bright light.  Side Three is the flip side and I only saw a couple of light surface scratches here, barely visible unless under a super bright light.  So here is a 95-second audio/video of Side Three so you can hear the great sound quality.  All the rest of the sides are like this, too.  None of the couple of scuffs or surface scratches were deep enough to cause any tics whatsoever! 

I rate the cover as just Very Good (VG) due to the ringwear.  I give the 2 records an Excellent (EX) for physical looks due to the minimum tiny surface scratches barely there and the sound gets a Near Mint (NM).  ________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Guidelines I use to rate the quality of these records (based on the Goldmine Grading Guide):

NM:Near Mint - Vinyl, still shiny, as if opened for the first time. No writing or stickers on the vinyl. No obvious scratches. Label: No writing or stickers and no fading of the label.

NM-: Near Mint Minus - Similar to NM but will have some very light scratches on the vinyl not affecting the sound quality. No writing or stickers on label and no fading (or ringwear) on cover or label.

EX: Excellent - Not quite a Goldmine Standard Listing, but being used by many now. Cover: No ink wear, minor creases to corners, no seam tears. Vinyl can have scratches, but not felt by your fingers. Sound quality must be mint. No more than 15% of the surface should have wear or scuffs on it. To me, EX is like a VG++.

VG+: Very Good Plus - Similar to NM- except that on the label, there may be a sticker or writing, but it shows very little wear. There may be only a couple light surface scratches on the grooves, but do not affect the playback with noise or skips. You may only see these scratches if you put them under a bright light and really look for them. The cover might have light creasing or minor seam or corner wear, but still in great condition to show off.

VG to VG-: Very Good to Very Good Minus - May not be that shiny anymore and you will see scratches without putting it under a bright light, but they still would not affect the quality of the playback. The sound quality is still pretty good, maybe a little noise, but not enough to detract from the listening experience. The label might have some fading around it, besides having stickers or writing. The cover may have obvious ringwear in the middle or around the perimeter of where the record was, maybe some side seam splits, or little tears at the top or side where the record goes back into. If less defects, then it's a VG. If it has all this just mentioned, then a VG-.

G, G+: Good or Good Plus - It doesn't mean the vinyl is trashed. It plays though without skipping, but may have heavy noise or fuzz sound because of age, quality, or worn-down grooves. Heavy writing or stickers on the label, ringwear is very obvious on label and cover probably has seam splits. But, amazingly, if you have special audio LP recording software, you could probably clean up those crackles and fuzzes, if you want to create a CD of it for yourself.

P: Poor - This is when the vinyl is warped to the point it warps the playback also. Or it's cracked, but it may or may not still play without a skip. If a picture sleeve is with it, this is torn or marked up bigtime. But someone may want to have it for nostalgia or even attempt to fix it.

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