Sold Date: August 11, 2024
Start Date: August 4, 2024
Final Price: $49.00 (USD)
Bid Count: 18
Seller Feedback: 2921
Buyer Feedback: 0

(Note:  If you win multiple items in a week’s listings, please wait for the end of all of the auctions for me to invoice you, so that you can take advantage of my combined shipping offer.  Thanks!)

READ THIS! These records are NOT sold for perfect sound quality.

They’re sold for their scarcity and VISUAL grading. They’ve been in storage for a decade, and they WILL play with surface noise that can be addressed with D4 or a VPI cleaning.  I can’t test-play at the minute.

Please don’t bid if this is a problem for you.

So with that said…

REM 1983 RARE Murmer First Pressing DEBUT LP A1 Plates BOTH SIDES, EX Vinyl!

Their first album with first-day of issue plates.  Now where are you going to find another one of these?!

Vinyl--- EX/EX.  Full 100% gloss, vinyl surfaces shine like a mirror.  But each side has a small handful of extremely light scratches you can hardly see, much less feel.  Your stylus won’t know they’re there.

Plates--- SPO-70604-A-3 A1-F/ SPO-70604-B-3. A1-H. “STERLING” machine-stamped on both sides.  Definitely first-run A1 plates!

Cover--- Strong VG+.  Front and back covers have light ringwear that you have to tilt toward the light to locate. Top and bottom seams have light shelfwear.  Fully readable spine.  NO SPLITS.

Labels--- EX/EX.  Each side has a few extremely light spindle marks, otherwise these labels look brand new.

Inner Sleeve--- EX.  Original custom inner sleeve is present, and has next to no wear at all.  A few light wrinkles.  Flat sleeve with thumb tab, as opposed to later issues with straight-cut inner sleeves.  NO SPLIT SEAMS.

A generic inner sleeve will be provided, so as not to damage your original custom inner sleeve en route.

CAUTION!  There has been a startling increase in bidders canceling their bids.  A word to the wise, I have started blocking any and all bidders who retract their bids regardless of the reason.

Please don’t bid unless you’re willing to honor your amount, okay? Thanks!

(Please note:  Regarding play-testing, my Technics turntable has somehow seized.  The tone arm is stuck in the up position, and I can’t get it to fully return to its cradle.  Is there anyone out there, who can tell me if this is an easy fix?  Thanks!) 

Check out my other auctions for more hard-to-find vinyl!

Shipping is $4.87 for Media Mail for up to 3 single or double albums, excluding boxed sets within the U.S.  $4.87 covers shipping for up to 5 singles within the U.S., and within the same auction week.

Winners in all other countries will be charged actual shipping to their locations, so please wait to be invoiced.  You will be quoted for the cheapest shipping to your country that the US post office can afford me.  Please let me know if you would prefer to pay for a faster means of shipping, but do NOT ask me to declare packages as gifts, or any other means of defrauding the postal services.  Much appreciated.

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