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Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Product Description:

180 Gram Pressing Discmastered by RTI (USA)
Gatefold Version Rhino 78976 (USA)
Ships Double Boxed for your Record's Safety Includes Free Protective LP Jacket Cover

The archetypal heavy metal band, Black Sabbath unleashed a debut album marked by ponderous, sludgy rhythms, heavily distorted riffs and chords, and more than a whiff of darkness and Black Magic. Its crushing atmosphere of doom proved intense and relentless; the cumulative effect was dubbed "downer rock," but it proved immediately popular with a disaffected audience. Though no one could have predicted it at the time, Sabbath was laying the groundwork for a genre that would continue to grow in popularity through the '70s, '80s, '90s, and beyond. BLACK SABBATH announces the arrival of both the band and the style in no uncertain terms. Though given more to extended jams and "suites" than later Sabbath recordings, songs like the ominous title cut and the bluesy, harmonica-driven rocker "The Wizard" set the standard the band would follow for years to come. Singer Ozzy Osbourne already possessed one of the most distinctive voices in rock, and his chemistry with guitarist Tony Iommi, whose crushing guitar work descends like a ton of bricks, is undeniable. Still dug out, dusted off, and played, BLACK SABBATH is, in many ways, the true beginning of heavy metal. OZZY ROCKS! It's hard to believe this classic recording was done for around $700!

Black Sabbath Paranoid Track Listing:

1. War Pigs      
2. Paranoid      
3. Planet Caravan      
4. Iron Man      
5. Electric Funeral      
6. Hand of Doom         
7. Rat Salad         
8. Fairies Wear Boots 

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ALWAYS wet clean all LPs before their first use to remove record sleeve dust and other particles from manufacturing. This includes ALL new LPS and it doesn't matter who makes them, or who sells them.  If you purchased a used LP somewhere
(we only sell new) double clean it. This is standard procedure you should be following.  We recommend Lasermedia VNC-4
Vinyl Record Cleaner because it does the job well without harmful solvents like alcohol or worse which can damage the plasticizers in
 the vinyl making it noisy and prone to wear..

REPLACE standard paper sleeves with poly lined sleeves to keep the record from scratching when inserting the LP into it. This is
particularly important with those nice-to-look-at hard sleeves they sometimes use. 

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if you immediately ask us to after payment. This is guaranteed preventable damage if you simply ask us to do it. (This is the proper way to ship LPS anyway.)
If you do not ask us to do it, we cannot guarantee there will be no seam splits no matter how well the records are packed, and we will not consider any record
 jacket seam splits as "damage" for a return or compensation.

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stickers at various locations which may or may not be on the plastic jacket cover of the LP.

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