Sold Date: September 8, 2019
Start Date: September 1, 2019
Final Price: $32.00 (USD)
Bid Count: 2
Seller Feedback: 697
Buyer Feedback: 14

Fleetwood Mac: "Fleetwood Mac" Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab "Original Master Recording" MFSL 1-012 1979 Stereophonic LP Record Album Audiophile remastered reissue of original 1975 Reprise release Made in USA / Pressed in Japan

#182 on Rolling Stone's 2012 "500 Greatest Albums of All Time"

Vinyl 

Audio graded only. Great clarity & depth to sound, and mostly free from background noise, with an infrequent soft static blip/snap. Some soft crackle at the tail end of B4 (Sugar Daddy). These could possibly be eliminated with further cleaning. MoFi "sunset" labels, specifying "PRESSED IN JAPAN".

EX+

Inner Sleeve 

MoFi "Original Master Sleeve", contained within a MoFi-branded outer cardboard sleeve. Detailed text about the company's mission & remastering process.

NM

Jacket  

Edge wear, and 1" seam split, top right edge. Otherwise fine.

VG+

Dead wax runout

Side A: MFSL-1-012-A1  SR/2 (etched)  1 1 1 (stamped)

Side B: L  MFSL-1-{scratched out} 012-B-1  RE-1  SR/2 (etched)  1 3 1 (stamped)

Codes

SR/2: Stan Ricker, original MoFi mastering engineer

About grading, and my priorities:

I’m using the well-known Goldmine standard, for rating vinyl records. But with this caveat: In rating the vinyl itself, only one thing matters to me: how it “plays”. The aural experience. I don’t care what it looks like. I’m not even sure how one can extrapolate how a record will play, based solely on a visual inspection of the vinyl. I’ve experienced shiny, pristine-looking vinyl, that proved to be intolerably noisy upon listening. And vice versa, vinyl that looked well worn, but played beautifully. I’m not even sure of what some of these descriptives mean, like “sleeve marks”. 

So basically, a vinyl rating of NM, near-mint, will indicate that the record, though used, plays cleanly, with an absence of extraneous noise--clicks, pops, ticks, crackle & crunch, static blips, etc. It implies nothing about the vinyl's appearance, because that is rendered irrelevant, moot. It is not a decorative object. And more to the point: it won't give me an accurate read on its sonics. Who can be sure, whether or not a scratch will affect play? And who goes around “feeling” scratches, to see how deep they are? I can only see visual grading playing a role of last resort, when neither buyer nor seller can give an accounting of the aural experience.

The upshot is, I will not list any used, unsealed records, without listening to them in their entirety. And my vinyl ratings will be based solely on the sound emanating from the grooves. I'm not talking about the quality of the audio engineering of the original vinyl (though I may make a remark when a record stands out for its sheer sound). I'm talking about the extraneous noises that come from usage, wear & tear. 

That said, there’s a certain amount of subjectivity in all this, the assigning of a grade. And you may become aware of something that passed by me somehow. Also, how a record sounds will vary from system to system. I want buyers to be pleased with their purchase. Everything I sell can be returned for a refund, minus shipping costs, for any reason at all, within 30 days. Provided it’s returned to me in the exact condition in which it was received. If you believe that I significantly misrepresented an album’s condition, please let me know. I’m a reasonable person, and will accept responsibility, assume shipping costs...if I’m dealing with a reasonable person, with a reasonable claim. We like to believe that such is always the case, but unfortunately experience proves otherwise. I won't be played. So don't even think about it.

If you're unhappy with a record you receive, please notify me so we can resolve the issue. Please take into account that I expend a lot of time & effort, in order to be as conscientious a seller as I can be. There's no need to assume a hostile or abusive stance.

More about an album’s condition:

Unless otherwise stated, the albums I send will be superficially cleaned with a dishwasher type pad, sprayed with a cleaning solution recommended for this purpose. But a deeper cleaning that penetrates the grooves will likely enhance a record’s play, and I’d recommend that to anyone who has such an advanced, vacuum-based machine. I recently acquired the Spin-Clean manual cleaner, and will use it on discs I’ve thus far held back, feeling they could be much improved through a deeper cleaning. 

About shipping:

Happy to combine purchases, to minimize the cost of shipping. Records will be shipped in a cardboard mailer specifically designed for records, capable of carrying 1-5 LPs. Base postage price will go up in small increments, only when USPS weight thresholds are crossed.