The Jam - All Mod Cons, Sound Affects (Vinyl, 1978 and 1980, NM and VG+)
General background -
This is one from my personal collection. I started buying records back in the '60s, probably bought most of my stuff in the late '60s and '70s. I carried on buying vinyl through into the '90s, but by that point it was more out of habit than desire - I always though of myself as "a vinyl guy" and although I was buying CDs by then, I grabbed any vinyl albums by artists I liked or was interested in. In a lot of these later cases they mostly never even got played. By that point I wasn't actually using my record deck/hi-fi much - if I bothered to play anything it tended to be via the PC and its own attached mini-system. When I last moved house around 2001 my hi-fi system got ignored and has only very recently come back in to use.
But when I did buy albums, I always took great care of them. I have plenty of albums that I bought over 50 years ago that could pass for new - unmarked and perfectly clean players. I've always handled, played, and stored my records carefully. Typically they've been stored properly in thick protective sleeves in purpose built cabinets, and I've always used good quality systems to play them on - in the past things like Pioneer or AR decks, and since the '80s a Roksan Xerxes/RB/OC9 combination.
After dragging my vinyl around for some 50-60 years, I've decided to finally retire most of it. I shall keep some old favourites, but other than that it will go. I've always felt that listening to vinyl should be a dedicated thing, and there are few occasions now when I feel like just sitting and giving a record the attention it deserves. Having a bit of digital music burbling away in the background while I'm doing something else is more the norm for me now.
I've tried to price things reasonably, allowing for the fact that most of them are in very good condition, and I'm listing a lot of them now as "fixed price" listings, rather than auctions, but all of them are open to offers.
This record -
Another attempt to get with the new programme back in the day. I quite liked "That's Entertainment" but apart from that I always found Paul Weller way too earnest and serious to take seriously.
So, both records very clean and unmarked, barely played.
"All Mod Cons" sleeve is very clean and tidy apart from a couple of small tears (2cm and 5mm) to the top edge on the rear face. "Sound Affects" was obviously remaindered at the time I bought it and is hole-punched through the sleeve and inner sleeve (but not the record!) - see last picture.
Both very fine playing copies.
